"Even if I’m not staying here on the Zócalo, it’s worth stopping in just to see the jaw-dropping interiors. Opened as a department store in 1899, its Art Nouveau bones have been carefully maintained: the curving staircase is a replica of the one at Paris’s Le Bon Marché, and the antique elevator, made of iron and concrete, was the first of its kind in Mexico City. The pièce de résistance is the incredible Tiffany stained-glass ceiling, imported from France in 1908." - Alexis Mustri Guindi