Centro Cultural Isidro Favela Review

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Centro Cultural Isidro Favela

  • Address: Plaza San Jacinto 15, San Angel, Mexico City
  • Phone: 55/5616-2711

Fodor's Review:

This 1681 mansion is one of the prettiest houses facing the Plaza San Jacinto. A huge free-form fountain sculpture—exploding with colorful porcelain, tiles, shells, and mosaics—covers the eastern wall of its patio. Although it's not ranked among the city's top museums, it has a splendid collection of 17th- and 18th-century European and colonial Mexican paintings, all donated by the house's last owner, Isidro Favela. Favela also donated books and magazines to a small library behind the museum (by way of a beautiful open patio) that is open to the public. Temporary art exhibitions also rotate through.

  • Cost: Free
  • Open: Tues.-Sun. 10-5
  • Metro: M. A. de Quevedo
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