The oldest public park in the Americas opens your World Cup city tour under the shade of ancient trees. Your guide introduces the layered history of Mexico City here — from Aztec marketplaces to colonial promenades to the modern megalopolis that is hosting the world in 2026.

One of the largest city squares on earth spreads before you. The National Palace lines one side. The Metropolitan Cathedral anchors the north. Beneath the square the ruins of the Aztec Templo Mayor are still being excavated. Your guide positions you in the centre of 700 years of continuous history and connects it to the World Cup moment happening above it.

The largest cathedral in the Americas took 240 years to build and sank slowly into the soft lakebed beneath the city throughout. It tilts. It settles. It stands. Your guide reads the facades — Spanish Baroque, Neoclassical, indigenous stonework — as a visual record of everything that happened between 1573 and the nation Mexico became. Football fans from Spain will find the history here deeply personal.

A pedestrian street of galleries, street art and independent cafés closes the tour with the living cultural identity of modern Mexico City. Your guide connects the creativity here to the ancient civilisation that preceded it and to the World Cup city that is presenting itself to the world for the first time on this scale. In World Cup year Regina feels like Mexico City's thank you letter to its own culture.