The Alameda Central park is a green garden with paved paths and decorative fountains and statues, and is frequently the center of civic events.

On 11 January 1592, Viceroy Luis de Velasco II ordered the creation of a public green space for the city's residents.

What is now the western section of the park originally was a plain plaza built during the Inquisition in Mexico and known as El Quemadero (The Burning Place).

Much of the current layout of the park, with its starburst pattern of paths around fountains and the central kiosk dates from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[4] The park's statues include Désespoire and Malgré Tout, by Jesús Fructuoso Contreras, and a monument donated by the German community which is dedicated to Beethoven in commemoration of the centenary of his 9th Symphony.

[8] During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mexico City authorities closed the Alameda Central and other public spaces in the historic centre to prevent crowds from gatherings, in an effort to decrease COVID-19 transmissions.