Plaza Garibaldi

Why go

north of the Palacio de Bellas Artes. The Plaza is best known as the Mexico City home of mariachi music. At all hours of the day and night, mariachi bands can be found here playing or soliciting gigs from visitors to the Plaza. The Salón Temanpa, which started it all here in the 1920s, is still in business.

What to look for

• Notice how Plaza Garibaldi relates to the surrounding streets and skyline.
• Look for surviving details that reveal the site's principal historical layer.

The full story

on the north side of the plaza. The plaza and the neighborhoods around it are undergoing extensive rehabilitation to halt the decades-long degeneration of the area. Plans include a remodeled plaza, extensive rehabilitation of the surrounding buildings and streets as well as making the area a zone where it is safe to be 24 hours a day for visitors. The Salón Tenampa The Salon Tenampa was founded by Juan Indalecio Hernández Ibarra, originally from Cocula, Jalisco, the birthplace of mariachi. Hernández arrived in Mexico City from Jalisco in 1923 and started a cantina/store on Plaza Garibaldi, naming it El Tenampa. Hernández opened the establishment to give his fellow “Jalisquenses” a taste of home, with foods such as birria, pozole as well as tequila and mariachi music. Over the decades, the establishment would host kings, princesses, presidents, prime ministers plus innumerable politicians, artists and intellectuals from Mexico and abroad. Still located on the north side of Garibaldi Plaza, El Tenampa parties every night until 3 am, 4 am on weekends and.

Useful to know

• Allow enough time to see Plaza Garibaldi and its immediate setting without rushing.
• Check current official access information before entering any managed interior.

Your next visit

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