40 photographed places and the films, series and music recorded here, with sources, access notes and what you can still visit.
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Palacio de Bellas Artes illuminated at night, Mexico City · 2013-10-13 20:54:46. City context, not a production still. Resized from an official Commons derivative.The city through culture
On screen in Mexico City.
The most-documented productions in this city's shared records.
Movies
Roma1 sourced claim
Television
Soy tu fan5 sourced claims
Music
Luis Miguel · El Concierto1 sourced claim
Café Tacvba · Un Segundo MTV Unplugged1 sourced claim
Juan Gabriel · Mis 40 en Bellas Artes1 sourced claim
Bunbury · MTV Unplugged: El libro de las mutaciones1 sourced claim
Look again at a familiar street
Places with stories.
40 reviewed photographs of exact sites. A photograph shows the place today; it is not a production still or a filming position.
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Palacio de Bellas Artes · photographed 2013-10-13 20:54:46. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons derivative.Palacio de Bellas Artes
ProtoplasmaKid · CC BY 4.0 · Estadio Azteca — Elton John historical engagement · photographed 13 May 2026, 22:16:56. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons derivative.Estadio Azteca — Elton John historical engagement
ProtoplasmaKid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Estudios Churubusco · photographed 16 March 2017. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons derivative.Estudios Churubusco
ProtoplasmaKid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Zócalo · Plaza de la Constitución · photographed 7 June 2024, 11:42:38. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons derivative.Zócalo
Cristofor Ferrandis · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Centro Cultural Bella Época · historic Cine Lido · photographed 27 September 2016, 22:01:26. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons derivative.Centro Cultural Bella Época
ProtoplasmaKid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Frontón México · photographed 26 November 2023, 16:50:54. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons derivative.Frontón México
Luis Pedro Arroyave · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fonoteca Nacional · photographed 17 September 2012, 11:26:21. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons derivative.Fonoteca Nacional
ProtoplasmaKid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · FARO Cosmos, photographed 2 July 2025. The present cultural complex at the former Cine Cosmos site; not a historic cinema photograph.FARO Cosmos
ProtoplasmaKid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Biblioteca de México · photographed 7 February 2024, 16:53:11. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons image.Biblioteca de México
Secretaría de Cultura CDMX · CC BY 2.0 · Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris · photographed 9 April 2021, 11:53:08. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons image.Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris
Wotancito · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Salón Los Ángeles · photographed 17 December 2017, 01:57:13. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons image.Salón Los Ángeles
Mike Shonter · CC BY-SA 4.0 · FARO Tláhuac workshop-building exterior in Bosque de Tláhuac · photographed 2015. Dated location context; no current programme or access claim.FARO Tláhuac workshop-building exterior in Bosque de Tláhuac
Wotancito · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Barco UTOPÍA · photographed 2023-06-03. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons image.Barco UTOPÍA
SLB1907 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Biblioteca BS-IBBY México · photographed 2023-05-02. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons image.Biblioteca BS-IBBY México
Ismael Villafranco · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Centro Cultural del México Contemporáneo · photographed 2010-10-01. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons image.Centro Cultural del México Contemporáneo
Mario Yaír TS · CC BY-SA 4.0 · La Purísima (La Puri), República de Cuba · photographed 17 September 2021 while closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Facade context only; not current opening or admission information.La Purísima (La Puri), República de Cuba
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Every Place and Moment record, including sites not yet ready for a pin. A marker is a site reference, not a filming position or a route; access and city-boundary status stay as researched.
Existing geography to build from
0 inherited World connections · 0 Place records. These records retain their original research status.
0 matching inherited Place records · 6 remaining source leads
No inherited map positions match these filters or pass the current review. All matching records remain available below.
Complete inherited record access
Includes restricted and unmapped-in-this-view records. Map eligibility never removes a record from this list.
New Place & Moment records
One record per explicitly reconciled site, with its separate cultural connections. The map starts with sites that have reviewed public visiting conditions. The research view also shows verified approximate site references with restricted or unconfirmed access; these records have no public subject destinations. Only individually reviewed, licensed imagery appears. Unresolved geography remains searchable.
13 of 13 draft site records · 24 of 24 Moments
0 mapped site references · Reviewed public visiting conditions. Private sites and unresolved coordinates are excluded.
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Non Solo Roma
Geometry unresolved · Access under review
Soy tu fan
The café where Charly and Nico meet.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
Historical continuity and current state are still under review. See the individual source notes; no surviving-building claim is inferred.
Current visitor permission and entrance details are not certified. Source notes may distinguish private property, past exhibitions or regional sites.
Jardín Botánico de Chapultepec
Burkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Jardín Botánico de Chapultepec · photographed 2020-02-09 15:28:44. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons derivative.
Geometry unresolved · Access under review
Soy tu fan
Identified as Nico’s greenhouse workplace. The article notes subsequent restoration, so screen appearance and current state need separate review.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
Historical continuity and current state are still under review. See the individual source notes; no surviving-building claim is inferred.
Current visitor permission and entrance details are not certified. Source notes may distinguish private property, past exhibitions or regional sites.
Auditorio Nacional
Aztec1989 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Auditorio Nacional · photographed date not recorded. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons derivative.
Geometry unresolved · Access under review
Luis Miguel
The venue’s dated 24 February 2018 press release records his 226th concert there after the previous evening’s performance, with appearances beginning in 1991. The number is a historical milestone, not a current career total. This is a live-performance association; no current event or access entitlement is implied.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
The venue’s 2 August 2023 announcement documents Café Tacvba’s June 2000 concerts with Gustavo Cerati and June 2022 acoustic performances. Its August 2023 dates were announced engagements, not independently verified completed performances.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
The live album El Concierto (released 17 October 1995) was recorded during Luis Miguel’s Segundo Romance Tour run at the Auditorio Nacional in August 1994; some material comes from two November 1994 concerts at Estadio José Amalfitani, Buenos Aires, which are not a Mexico City site. Individual track-to-night attribution is not inferred.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
Historical continuity and current state are still under review. See the individual source notes; no surviving-building claim is inferred.
Current visitor permission and entrance details are not certified. Source notes may distinguish private property, past exhibitions or regional sites.
Valladolid 16 — Charly’s home
Geometry unresolved · Access under review
Soy tu fan
The city tourism guide identifies this Roma Norte address as one of Charly’s homes in the 2010–2012 series. Residential location; no visitor entry entitlement.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
Historical continuity and current state are still under review. See the individual source notes; no surviving-building claim is inferred.
Current visitor permission and entrance details are not certified. Source notes may distinguish private property, past exhibitions or regional sites.
Malintzin 52 — Charly’s home
Geometry unresolved · Access under review
Soy tu fan
The city tourism guide identifies this Del Carmen address as another Charly home in the 2010–2012 series. Keep it separate from Valladolid 16. Residential location; no visitor entry entitlement.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
Historical continuity and current state are still under review. See the individual source notes; no surviving-building claim is inferred.
Current visitor permission and entrance details are not certified. Source notes may distinguish private property, past exhibitions or regional sites.
Sala Nezahualcóyotl, UNAM
Luisalvaz · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Sala Nezahualcóyotl, UNAM · photographed 2015-03-08 12:06:04. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons derivative.
Geometry unresolved · Public visiting — check conditions
Café Tacvba
The venue’s retrospective identifies Sala Nezahualcóyotl as the concert location recorded for Un segundo MTV Unplugged (2019). This is separate from the band’s 1995 Miami Unplugged recording.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
Música UNAM identifies Sala Nezahualcóyotl at the Centro Cultural Universitario, Insurgentes Sur 3000. Concert access is distinct from access to the historical recording setup.
Consult the current programme and purchase tickets through UNAM or the venue box office. UNAM recommends arriving 30 minutes before concerts and prohibits photography/video during concerts. This does not establish an entrance pin or permit reproduction of recordings.
UNAM’s 10 October 2019 broadcast announcement places Café Tacvba’s second MTV Unplugged recording at Sala Nezahualcóyotl on 5 March; the album record names it Un Segundo MTV Unplugged (recorded 5 March 2019, released 22 October 2019). No stage footprint or reproduction right is inferred.
Supporting source
PROBABLE · Limited source-review note; does not certify a location pin, current admission or reproduction rights.
Diego Re23 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · El Hijo del Cuervo, Jardín Centenario, Coyoacán · photographed 31 October 2019. Venue facade context, not a performance image or current admission information.
Geometry unresolved · Public visiting — check conditions
Café Tacvba
The retrospective identifies a performance at El Hijo del Cuervo as an early step into Mexico’s rock scene. It does not establish an exact debut date or the survival of that performance space.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
The operator identifies Jardín Centenario 17, Coyoacán, as its venue since December 1986 and retains that address on its current site. No reconstruction or exact historical stage footprint has been established.
Check the venue directly for its current programme, opening and admission conditions. Past performers are not promised at a present visit. No pin, entrance position, recording permission or image licence is established.
Supporting source
PROBABLE · Current operator information supports this limited state/access record, not a filming footprint, coordinate or image licence.
Hmaglione10 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Café de Tacuba · January2011 exterior context. Hmaglione10 · CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized WebP.
Geometry unresolved · Access under review
Café Tacvba
The retrospective identifies the Centro Histórico restaurant as the inspiration for the band’s name, adopted in 1989. A namesake relationship is not a recording or performance claim.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
Historical continuity and current state are still under review. See the individual source notes; no surviving-building claim is inferred.
Current visitor permission and entrance details are not certified. Source notes may distinguish private property, past exhibitions or regional sites.
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Palacio de Bellas Artes · photographed 2013-10-13 20:54:46. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons derivative.
Geometry unresolved · Access under review
Juan Gabriel
The museum’s estate/Sony-partnered concert-film presentation identifies his 1990 performance at this Mexico City venue. The later Chicago screening is a separate event.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
The venue’s guide recalls presenting flowers to Vargas on stage. This institutional account establishes her performance association without inventing a concert date.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
Juan Gabriel performed the 40th-anniversary concert recorded as the live album Mis 40 en Bellas Artes at the Palacio de Bellas Artes on 31 August 2013; the album (two CDs and a DVD) followed on 6 May 2014. Later screenings of the concert film are separate events.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
Historical continuity and current state are still under review. See the individual source notes; no surviving-building claim is inferred.
Current visitor permission and entrance details are not certified. Source notes may distinguish private property, past exhibitions or regional sites.
Brenda Rodríguez (Excélsior, 18 September 2024) independently dates the Bellas Artes show to 31 August 2013 and the live album to 6 May 2014. The 2024 Zócalo screening it announces is a separate event.
Supporting source
PROBABLE · Limited source-review note; does not certify a location pin, current admission or reproduction rights.
ProtoplasmaKid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cine Metropolitan — Roma production setting · photographed 2019-01-19 16:01:58. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons derivative.
Geometry unresolved · Access under review
Roma
The production-design dossier identifies the cinema entrance and hall as filmed settings, adapted with period dressing. Current theatre identity and admission need operator review.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
The operator identifies the former cinema as today’s Teatro Metropólitan, at Avenida Independencia 90, and dates OCESA operation to 1996. The cinema setting was period-dressed for Roma; current finishes are not presumed identical.
Consult the operator’s event admission and accessibility information. No unrestricted interior access, film-location tour or current viewing of the dressed set is established.
Supporting source
PROBABLE · Current operator information supports this limited state/access record, not a filming footprint, coordinate or image licence.
ProtoplasmaKid · CC BY 4.0 · Estadio Azteca — Elton John historical engagement · photographed 13 May 2026, 22:16:56. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons derivative.
Geometry unresolved · Access under review
Elton John
The artist’s official account recalls two shows on The One tour in 1992. Current stadium naming, redevelopment and visitor conditions need separate review.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
Historical continuity and current state are still under review. See the individual source notes; no surviving-building claim is inferred.
Current visitor permission and entrance details are not certified. Source notes may distinguish private property, past exhibitions or regional sites.
Estudios Churubusco
ProtoplasmaKid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Estudios Churubusco · photographed 16 March 2017. Location context, not a production still. Resized from the credited Commons derivative.
Geometry unresolved · Access restricted
Bunbury
UNAM’s TV UNAM programme note records Bunbury’s MTV Unplugged as recorded at Estudios Churubusco on 1 September 2015. The studio room used is not identified.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
The operator gives its address as Atletas 2, Colonia Country Club, Coyoacán, and operates the site as a working production complex. The 2015 recording room is not identified.
The operator offers facility tours by appointment through its contact page; arrange and confirm permission first. No walk-in entry, stage access or accessible approach is established.
Chilango (23 October 2015) names the CD-DVD El libro de las mutaciones, recorded in early September at Estudios Churubusco, with release announced for 27 November 2015.
Supporting source
PROBABLE · Limited source-review note; does not certify a location pin, current admission or reproduction rights.
Source-reviewed leads, held off the map until identity, coordinates and current access are reviewed. No source photographs are reproduced. The search and category controls above also filter this section.
Parque México and Parque España
Soy tu fan · Two separate parks appearing in the series. Split into canonical Place records after individual identity and geometry verification.
Research status and source
single-source location leads; not one Place. Coordinates unresolved; no complete access clearance; image rights not secured.
Andrea Ochoa · Published 2022-08-25 · Checked 2026-10-09
Tepeji 22 — Roma façade
Roma · The city tourism guide identifies Tepeji 22 and a commemorative façade plaque. A separate city-hosted 2019 press digest names Tepeji 21 for filming: childhood home, exterior and production site must be disentangled before a canonical identity or pin is approved. No interior access implied.
Research status and source
official tourism source; identity and geometry review pending. Coordinates unresolved; no complete access clearance; image rights not secured.
Secretaría de Turismo de la Ciudad de México · Checked 2026-10-09
Tlatelolco housing units — area lead
Temporada de patos · The tourism guide connects the film with Tlatelolco housing units but does not identify an exact building here. Retain an area lead, not a guessed apartment or point.
Research status and source
official tourism source; identity and geometry review pending. Coordinates unresolved; no complete access clearance; image rights not secured.
Secretaría de Turismo de la Ciudad de México · Checked 2026-10-09
Roma family house — three production sites unresolved
Roma · The family home combined separate interior/patio, Tepeji exterior and rooftop sites. A house address must not stand for all three.
Research status and source
first-person production account; precise identity, geometry, current access and rights pending. Coordinates unresolved; no complete access clearance; image rights not secured.
Roma production design team / Art Directors Guild submission · Checked 2026-10-10
Roma Insurgentes / Baja California — constructed set unresolved
Roma · Both avenues were recreated on a constructed backlot. The original avenues are not established filming sites; the lot address remains unresolved.
Research status and source
first-person production account; precise identity, geometry, current access and rights pending. Coordinates unresolved; no complete access clearance; image rights not secured.
Roma production design team / Art Directors Guild submission · Checked 2026-10-10
Roma Centro Médico — warehouse identity unresolved
Roma · A surviving warehouse in the hospital complex was rebuilt for hospital scenes. The particular structure and current continuity remain unresolved.
Research status and source
first-person production account; precise identity, geometry, current access and rights pending. Coordinates unresolved; no complete access clearance; image rights not secured.
Roma production design team / Art Directors Guild submission · Checked 2026-10-10
The nine-World launch slate
Research candidates, not approved callouts. Launch requires 100 verified locations, 20 reviewed Worlds and three evidence-reviewed, implemented callouts per category.
Movies
RomaResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
Amores perrosResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
SpectreResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
TV
Soy tu fanResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
The House of FlowersResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
Everything Will Be FineResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
Music
Café TacvbaResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
MolotovResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
Natalia LafourcadeResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
Research boundaries
Mexico City; journeys into other states remain outside the city.
No transport routes, stays, events or new image permissions are inferred. Existing imagery is reproduced only where the subject package records cleared rights.
Destination research starting point; not evidence for every proposed World.
About this city
Mexico City is a new city on Where It Was and is still growing. Photographs show each place today, not production stills; map markers are site references, not filming positions, and access is as researched, so check before you visit.
Music location collection
Music, in place.
Music videos, cover images and recording history. Each connection links to its source. 1 named locations have supported map pins; locations awaiting coordinates remain below.
