Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Their Mexico City

Frida Kahlo was born in this house in 1907, and it remained her family home throughout her life. Its cobalt-blue walls gave it the name Casa Azul, the Blue House. Since 1958 it has been a museum dedicated to her life and work. The rooms are said to look much as they did in 1951, decorated with Mexican folk art.

Visitor guidance: Open as the Frida Kahlo Museum in Coyoacán.

Kahlo and Rivera married in 1929. In the same year Rivera began the murals that climb the main stairwell of the National Palace. Titled "The Epic of the Mexican People", they were painted between 1929 and 1935 and show the history of Mexico from 1521 to 1930. On the right-hand wall is pre-Hispanic Mexico, centred on the Aztec god Quetzalcóatl.

In 1931 Juan O'Gorman designed one of Latin America's first functionalist buildings for Rivera: two houses, one red and white for the painter and one blue for his wife Frida Kahlo, each with its own studio. From 1934 Rivera worked in his studio here. The pair opened to the public on 16 December 1986 as a museum.

Visitor guidance: Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo in San Ángel.

In May 1933 Rockefeller ordered Rivera's fresco in New York plastered over before it was finished. Rivera persuaded the Mexican government to let him repaint it on a blank wall at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, and he recreated it there in 1934; it hangs at the west end of the third floor. This hall later received Frida herself: after her death in 1954, her body was taken to Bellas Artes and lay in state under a Communist flag.

Visitor guidance: The mural is on the third floor of the Palacio de Bellas Artes.

From January 1937 to April 1939 Leon Trotsky and his wife lived at Frida Kahlo's family home. After a falling-out with Rivera, the Trotskys moved to a house on Viena Street in the same district. Ramón Mercader killed Trotsky with an ice axe in the study. The house has been kept as it was at that time, and it is now a museum.

Visitor guidance: Open as the Museo Casa de León Trotsky in Coyoacán, a short way from the Blue House.

In 1946 Rivera was asked to paint a mural for the Versalles dining room of the Hotel del Prado. He finished the fresco in 1947. It shows more than 150 figures, among them Frida Kahlo, other wives of the artist and some of his daughters. When the hotel was severely damaged in the 1985 earthquake, the mural was given its own museum, built in 1986.

Visitor guidance: The mural is displayed in the Museo Mural Diego Rivera beside the Alameda Central.

Anahuacalli means "house surrounded by water" in Nahuatl. Rivera designed it to safeguard his vast collection of pre-Hispanic art, and its walls are carved volcanic stone. He died before it was done; construction concluded in 1963 and the museum was inaugurated on 18 September 1964.

Visitor guidance: Open as the Anahuacalli Museum in San Pablo Tepetlapa.