--- title: "10 Photo Quests in Mexico City, Mexico β€” GetMap" description: "10 photo quests in Mexico City, Mexico β€” led by art, food and nature. Get there, take a photo within 200 m, and the check-in counts." source: https://getmap.travel/quests/city/mx/mexico-city --- # Mexico City Mexico Β· 10 quests ## History 1 quest ![ZΓ³calo, Mexico City](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/History/ChIJ_6pkSM3-0YURDDaRslwM_0w.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) πŸ‡²πŸ‡½ Mexico City [ZΓ³calo](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJ_6pkSM3-0YURDDaRslwM_0w) An Aztec ceremonial centre lies under it ## Nature 2 quests ![Chapultepec, Mexico City](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Nature/ChIJP1dJRVf_0YURr8MZosHl4kI.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) πŸ‡²πŸ‡½ Mexico City [Chapultepec](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJP1dJRVf_0YURr8MZosHl4kI) An insect gave this park its name ![Xochimilco, Mexico City](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Nature/ChIJYb2NdPIDzoUR2SRfA8TiQ38.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) πŸ‡²πŸ‡½ Mexico City [Xochimilco](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJYb2NdPIDzoUR2SRfA8TiQ38) Painted boats work these canals after dark ## Art 4 quests ![Casa Azul, Mexico City](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Art/ChIJOz-6AMT_0YURofTM9_ekAWI.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) πŸ‡²πŸ‡½ Mexico City [Casa Azul](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJOz-6AMT_0YURofTM9_ekAWI) She was born and died in this blue house ![Anthropology Museum, Mexico City](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Art/ChIJScjIILQB0oURJMVub-MaI4Q.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) πŸ‡²πŸ‡½ Mexico City [Anthropology Museum](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJScjIILQB0oURJMVub-MaI4Q) Water falls from a concrete umbrella ![Bellas Artes, Mexico City](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Art/ChIJTQGqdSv50YURz-imDdIQ2Bc.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) πŸ‡²πŸ‡½ Mexico City [Bellas Artes](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJTQGqdSv50YURz-imDdIQ2Bc) Four famous painters covered the walls inside ![Museo Soumaya, Mexico City](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Art/ChIJCT06bhoC0oURszwDTCLicpM.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) πŸ‡²πŸ‡½ Mexico City [Museo Soumaya](https://getmap.travel/quests/PyXoaWhWO4ajRf8JtWBF) 66,000 works spanning thirty centuries ## Food 2 quests ![Tamales, Mexico City](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Food/ChIJeYLOZMT_0YURFEhp2ubb43c.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) πŸ‡²πŸ‡½ Mexico City [Tamales](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJeYLOZMT_0YURFEhp2ubb43c) It is cooked inside its own wrapper ![Flan de coco, Mexico City](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Food/ChIJez8vvy__0YURP0rx5WhEig4.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) πŸ‡²πŸ‡½ Mexico City [Flan de coco](https://getmap.travel/quests/ZlE1Zh9os4zP4g1PWIsY) The name is just the main ingredient ## Sport 1 quest ![Estadio Azteca, Mexico City](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Sport/ChIJGQkBCFIAzoURlLaQUWnuYZc.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) πŸ‡²πŸ‡½ Mexico City [Estadio Azteca](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJGQkBCFIAzoURlLaQUWnuYZc) Nothing separates the stands from the pitch --- Mexico ## Photo quests in Mexico City What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around. Mexico City holds ten quests across five categories, and Art is the largest group by some way: four of them against two for Food. The categories with nothing in Mexico City so far are Beach and Party. Three of them are tier 1 β€” finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other seven are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers three of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway. Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point. ### By category Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Mexico City quests among them. - [History quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/history) β€” one in Mexico City - [Nature quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/nature) β€” two in Mexico City - [Art quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/art) β€” four in Mexico City - [Food quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/food) β€” two in Mexico City - [Sport quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/sport) β€” one in Mexico City --- Tier 1 ## The unexpected ones The three quests in Mexico City the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures β€” the half of a city a guidebook has no room for. - [Estadio Azteca](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJGQkBCFIAzoURlLaQUWnuYZc) Nothing separates the stands from the pitch Sport - [Anthropology Museum](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJScjIILQB0oURJMVub-MaI4Q) Water falls from a concrete umbrella Art - [Xochimilco](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJYb2NdPIDzoUR2SRfA8TiQ38) Painted boats work these canals after dark Nature --- Nearby ## Cities near Mexico City Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country. - [Austin 12 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/us/austin) - [Cancun 13 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/mx/cancun) - [Dallas 13 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/us/dallas) - [Havana 3 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/cu/havana) - [San JosΓ© 11 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/cr/san-jose) - [Arizona 14 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/us/arizona) --- Questions ## About quests in Mexico City ### How many photo quests are there in Mexico City? 10, across five of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Art (4), Nature (2) and Food (2). Nothing in Beach and Party here yet β€” a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: ZΓ³calo, Chapultepec and Casa Azul. ### What is there to do in Mexico City beyond the obvious? 3 of the 10 quests in Mexico City are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Mexico City holds three at tier 1, four at tier 2 and three at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Estadio Azteca, Anthropology Museum and Xochimilco, which fall under Nature, Art and Sport. ### Can you do all the Mexico City quests on one trip? Most of them, with transport. The outermost of the 10 is 19 km from the middle of the Mexico City list, so the cluster in the middle is an afternoon and the edges are a bus or a taxi each. ### Which Mexico City quests can you do for free? 7 of the 10 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 10 can be read and travelled to without paying anything β€” the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Mexico City means three quests: Estadio Azteca, Anthropology Museum and Xochimilco. ### How do I prove I visited a place in Mexico City? Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Mexico City is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from ZΓ³calo fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way β€” upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Mexico City sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from. --- This is the Markdown rendering of https://getmap.travel/quests/city/mx/mexico-city. Site index for agents: https://getmap.travel/llms.txt