• Every Sunday the historic Reforma Avenue in Mexico City – constructed by Emperor Maximiliano after the Champs Elysees in Paris – is closed to automobile traffic so that people can ride their bicycles there.
  
  
• At the base of the column of the Angel de la Independencia (Independence Angel) – which fell down during an earthquake in 1957 – lay the remains of Miguel Hidalgo, Vicente Guerrero and Ignacio Allende who are some of the heroes of the Mexican Independence.
  
  
• In Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, Mexico means “Place at the center of the moon.”