FYJA opens the secret gardens of Mexico City

Discover the Festival Flores y Jardines this spring, taking place from March 21 to April 12.

By Jessica Servín Castillo
17th of march 2026

FYJA Immersions 2026: Visions of the Mexican Garden — Home, City, and Territory is an invitation to experience the city through a different lens: more attentive, more sensitive, more curious. From March 21 to April 12, a series of carefully curated routes opens doors—some discreet, others monumental—to reveal the garden as a living language where art, botany, memory, and architecture converge.

These are not conventional guided tours. Each journey unfolds as a moving narrative. Within the refined setting of the Museo Kaluz, the landscape of the Valley of Mexico emerges through the scientific and poetic vision of José María Velasco. Further south, in Pedregal, hidden gardens pulse among volcanic stone and intimate stories, where nature has been carefully restored by those who understand the land as an act of care.

To the east, time deepens. At Texcotzingo, an ancient garden of water and stone conceived by Nezahualcóyotl, the pre-Hispanic landscape reveals a sophistication that continues to astonish. Back in the urban heart, Alameda Central—Latin America’s first public park—becomes a stage where art, history, and contemporary life unfold beneath the shade of its trees.

The experience culminates along the Ruta de la Amistad, a sculptural corridor where monumental art rises from the volcanic terrain, reminding us that even modernity can bloom with poetic intent.

Under the curatorial vision of The Mexican Garden, these immersions offer more than observation—they invite reinterpretation. To see the garden as living memory, as emotional terrain, as an intimate reflection of the relationship between people and place. With limited capacity and guided by specialists who weave together history, culture, and nature at every step, these routes offer perhaps one of the most elegant ways to inhabit the city—even if only for a few hours.

Because in this city, the landscape does not always impose itself—it reveals itself. Explore all the tours and reserve your spot at: fyja.mx

About the author:
Jessica Servín Castillo
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