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Mexico City spreads itself furthest to the south, where a series of old villages swallowed up by the urban sprawl harbour some of the most enticing destinations outside the centre. The colonial suburbs of Coyoacan and San Angel , each with a couple of worthwhile museums, make a tranquil respite from the city centre's hustle, and a startling contrast to the ultramodern bravado of the architecture of the university.

There are echoes of ancient Mexico, too, in the archeological site of Cuicuilco and in the canals of Xochimilco - what remain of the great valley lakes - and a couple of stations on the Diego Rivera trail, his remarkable collection of antiquities in the Museo Anahuacalli , and a very fine collection of paintings by him and Frida Kahlo in the Museo Dolores Olmeda Patino.

Out here too is the residential area of El Pedregal , which gets its name from the vast lava flow that spreads south of

San Angel through the University City and on to the south of Coyoacan. Craggy and dramatic, it was regarded as a completely useless stretch of land, the haunt of bandits and brigands until the early 1950s when architect Luis Barragan began to build extraordinarily imaginative houses here, using the uneven lava as a feature. Now it's filled with the most amazing collection of luxury homes, though even if you drive around you'll unfortunately see little behind the high walls and security fences.

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