3 Best Performing Arts Venues in Mexico City, Mexico

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We've compiled the best of the best in Mexico City - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.

Palacio de los Deportes

Greater Mexico City

Constructed in 1968 for basketball and volleyball games during the Mexico City Olympics, this massive arena relatively near the airport still hosts occasional sporting events but is best known as a venue for major music concerts. In recent years, Ariana Grande, Imagine Dragons, The Killers, Billie Eilish, Beyoncé, and Madonna have performed here.

Pepsi Center WTC

Benito Juárez

Since its opening in 2012, the Pepsi Center WTC has quickly risen to fame as one of the most modern concert venues in Mexico. With a capacity of 7,500 people, it's much smaller (and therefore slightly more intimate) than the other local arenas of Foro Sol, Estadio Azteca, and Palacio de los Deportes. It regularly receives international touring acts and sells out quickly. 

Teatro Metropólitan

Alameda Central
Opened in the 1940s as a cinema, the Metropólitan closed down following the 1985 earthquake that devastated the city and did not reopen until more than a decade later when it reopened the doors to its neoclassical hall in the form of a top concert venue. Today, the Teatro Metropólitan plays host to major pop and rock acts from Mexico and around the world.

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