The opening of “Spectre” (2015) stages a Day of the Dead parade across the Zócalo, a procession that didn't exist until the city later created it.
Built on drained Lake Texcoco, the city is sinking: the Metropolitan Cathedral has settled more than ten meters into the soft ground.
At Coyoacán Market, try a seafood-piled tostada in the cobbled district where Frida Kahlo once lived.