Plaza San Jacinto is the cobbled heart of San Ángel, a shaded colonial square ringed by old mansions and the seventeenth-century church of San Jacinto. On Saturdays it becomes the stage for the Bazar Sábado, the city's best-known art and crafts market: a covered hall of established artisans and silversmiths surrounded by painters who hang their canvases on the square's railings and outdoor restaurants that spill across the cobbles.
Even on a quiet weekday the plaza is worth the trip south for its village atmosphere — a fountain, flowering trees, and the heavy wooden doors of houses that have stood since the colonial era. A plaque on one wall recalls the Saint Patrick's Battalion, the Irish soldiers executed nearby after fighting for Mexico in the 1846 war with the United States.