Coyoacán Self-Guided Audio Walk: Frida Kahlo's Blue House, Trotsky's Fortress and the Coyote Fountain
2 hours
About this experience
Coyoacán was a village before it was part of Mexico City, and its walls tell its story. Convent churchyard walls came down to give it public gardens. Then, in the late 1930s, new walls went up around Leon Trotsky, first at Frida Kahlo's blue house and then at a fortified home a few blocks away. Start at the Viveros, Mexico's first forestry nursery, and walk the cobbled royal road of Francisco Sosa to the convent arch and the bronze coyote fountain. See San Juan Bautista, the red house legend ties to La Malinche, and La Conchita, a chapel on a pre-Hispanic mound with a front modeled by Indigenous craftsmen. At Plaza Hidalgo, hear the soldiers' graffiti on Cortés's walls and stand where Frida married Diego Rivera. Then follow the blue walls of the Casa Azul to Trotsky's house. Twelve stops, about 3.6 km and two hours, at your own pace in English or Spanish. Museum entry not included; the Casa Azul needs a timed ticket bought online.
- Experience type
- Day tour or activity
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Guide
- Spanish, English
- Audio guide
- Spanish, English
- Categories
- Walking tour · Cultural and theme tours · City tours
What's included
Self-guided audio tour in English and Spanish: 12 stops, 3.6 km, 2 hours Stops at convent arch and coyote fountain, San Juan Bautista, La Conchita's mortar-carved front and the red Casa de la Malinche GPS map and walking directions in your phone browser, no app needed Lifetime access: start any day, at any hour, and replay it
What's not included
A live guide: you set the pace and the pauses A fixed start time: begin whenever you arrive Museum and monument tickets, all optional extras Tip or gratuity Food and drinks Entry or admission fee
Please note
To start the tour, enter the booking number from your confirmation on the Roamer redemption page linked there. Do this before you set off, while you still have signal. The tour then opens in your phone browser, with no app to download. Bring a charged phone and earphones. Mobile data helps; if you have none, open the tour on wifi before you set off. Best time: Tuesday to Sunday, starting between 9 and 10 am, so the Frida Kahlo Museum, the Trotsky house and the Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares are open (all three close on Mondays; checked 14 October 2026). Book a Casa Azul time slot for roughly an hour and a half after you start. Weekdays are calmer; on weekends the Jardín Centenario fills with vendors and performers and the Casa Azul queue runs along the pavement. The Viveros are open 06:00 to 18:00. Frida Kahlo Museum tickets are sold online only, for a set time, at boletos.museofridakahlo.org.mx (or a self-service machine at Londres 234), and daily capacity is limited. Open Tuesday 10:00 to 18:00, Wednesday 11:00 to 18:00, Thursday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00; closed Monday. Checked 14 October 2026. To reach stop 1, take Metro Line 3 to Viveros-Derechos Humanos and walk about 500 m through the Viveros (open 06:00 to 18:00) or along Avenida Progreso to the south gate on Avenida Guillermo Pérez Valenzuela. The Trotsky house entrance is round the corner from the last stop, at Avenida Río Churubusco 410. Guides report Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 17:00, about 60 pesos (2025 figures; no official page found, checked 14 October 2026). The Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares is open Tuesday to Thursday 11:00 to 18:00 and Friday to Sunday 11:00 to 19:00 (Secretaría de Cultura, checked 14 October 2026). From the end on Avenida Río Churubusco, a taxi or app car is the easiest way on; Metro Coyoacán (Line 3) is a longer walk. The Fonoteca Nacional, in the eighteenth-century Casa de Alvarado at Francisco Sosa 383, is west of stop 3, off the route; check its hours before you go. The market at stop 10 is the walk's food stop; it is a working neighborhood market, so ask before photographing stalls. Right after stop 1 the route crosses Avenida Guillermo Pérez Valenzuela (three one-way lanes) at Callejón Torresco with no traffic lights. Cross with care. Footing is uneven: stone setts on Francisco Sosa and Felipe Carrillo Puerto, pebbles on Calle Jardín Santa Catarina, and rough cobbles in the Plaza de la Conchita, hard going for wheelchairs and strollers. Callejón Torresco, Avenida Progreso and Calle Vallarta are very quiet residential lanes: walk the tour in daylight. Keep phones and wallets secure in the weekend crowds of the Jardín Centenario and Plaza Hidalgo and in the Casa Azul queue. The atrium gates of San Juan Bautista have no published hours. If they are shut, view the church from the gate on Calle Felipe Carrillo Puerto and continue along that street to Plaza Hidalgo. San Juan Bautista and La Conchita are places of worship: do not visit during mass. Mexico City is about 2,240 m above sea level. On your first day, walk slowly and drink water. On Mondays the Casa Azul, the Trotsky house and the Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares are closed; the street stops all work. Public transportation nearby
Itinerary
- 1Day 0
Viveros de Coyoacán: One Park for the Trees and the Village
Avenida Guillermo Pérez Valenzuela, Mexico City
Mexico's first forestry nursery grew from an engineer's own ranch land. Founded in 1907, it shares a 1938 national park decree with old Coyoacán.
- 2Day 0
Plaza Santa Catarina: A Chapel Built Open to the Air
202 Avenida Francisco Sosa, Mexico City
A village chapel that began open to the air, on a square. Its churchyard wall came down in 1933 to make a park.
- 3Day 0
Francisco Sosa: The Royal Road to San Ángel
85 Avenida Francisco Sosa, Mexico City
A sixteenth-century royal road renamed for a local poet and historian. Cobbled, lined with old house fronts and the gardens behind them.
- 4Day 0
Jardín Centenario: The Churchyard a President Tore Open
Centenario, Mexico City
A convent churchyard turned public garden in 1914, entered through its old stone arch. Two bronze coyotes in the fountain.
- 5Day 0
San Juan Bautista: One Church, Three Owners
14D Plaza Hidalgo, Mexico City
Coyoacán's parish church was founded by Franciscan friars in the 1520s. Its gray stone front, from a church built in the late 1500s, faces the forecourt.
- 6Day 0
Casa de la Malinche: The Red House and Its Legend
52B Calle Higuera, Mexico City
A red house that local tradition ties to La Malinche, Cortés's interpreter. No document puts her here.
- 7Day 0
La Conchita: A Chapel on a Tepanec Mound
Calle Fernández Leal, Mexico City
A 1750s chapel on the mound where Cortés ordered one in 1524. Its front is modeled in mortar by Indigenous craftsmen.
- 8Day 0
Culturas Populares: A Museum of Everyday Mexico
102 Avenida Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City
A national museum of popular culture, opened in 1982 in a house from around 1900. Its exhibitions change.
- 9Day 0
Plaza Hidalgo: Cortés's White Walls and Frida's Wedding
Plaza Hidalgo, Mexico City
An eighteenth-century town hall called the Casa de Cortés, on the main square. Frida Kahlo married Diego Rivera here in 1929.
- 10Day 0
Mercado de Coyoacán: The Neighborhood Market
Calle Ignacio Allende, Mexico City
Coyoacán's covered market from the mid-1950s, a working neighborhood market and a good place to eat.
- 11Day 0
Casa Azul: Blue Walls Around a Garden and an Exile
246 Calle Londres, Mexico City
The house where Frida Kahlo was born and died, now her museum. Its blue outer walls went up in 1937 and 1938, while Trotsky lived there.
- 12Day 0
Trotsky's House: The Walls That Failed
56 Calle Viena, Mexico City
The walled house where Leon Trotsky lived his last months in exile. He survived one attack in 1940 and died after a second. His ashes lie in its garden.
Meeting point
Viveros de Coyoacán, Mexico City Avenida Guillermo Pérez Valenzuela, Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, MX
Pick up
Pickup is not provided.
Cancellation policy · Coyoacán Self-Guided Audio Walk: Frida Kahlo's Blue House, Trotsky's Fortress and the Coyote Fountain
Standard Viator policy
- Cancellation 0–24 hours before departure: 100% cancellation fee.
- Cancellation 24–24000 hours before departure: 0% cancellation fee.
Good to know
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