Olvera Street Tours and Tickets

There are plenty of ways to experience Olvera Street. Looking at ratings and reviews previously given by customers, these are the best tours available right now:

• Downtown Los Angeles Bike Tour

• Shared 8-Hour Los Angeles City Sightseeing Tour from Long Beach

• Privately Customized Tour of Los Angeles

• Private Tour of Los Angeles in a Luxury Vehicle

• LA: Food + History + Design Tour

• City Sightseeing Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour with Audio Guide

While it’s free to visit Olvera Street on your own, there are plenty of affordable tours that can help you learn more about the historic street with an expert guide—and enjoysome of the street’s many local gems along the way. Bike tours start at around US$85, while food tours are closer to US$100. You can also book a comprehensive sightseeing tour that includes many highlights of Los Angeles from US$122 per person.

Yes, Olvera Street is worth visiting, as it's one of the oldest parts of Los Angeles and a living piece of the city's Mexican and Spanish heritage. The street's pedestrian marketplace is lined with vendors selling handcrafted goods, traditional Mexican food stalls, and historic buildings dating back to the early 1800s, including the Ávila Adobe, the oldest standing residence in LA. For more context on the area's sights, consider booking a downtown LA tour that includes Olvera Street as a stop and let a knowledgeable guide bring the neighborhood's history to life.

Per one customer who booked the Downtown Los Angeles Bike Tour, "Great tour leader. Knows her way around the city. Rode through Los Angeles and got to see landmarks and learn a bunch of facts we never would have known. Great day!"

The Mexican market on Los Angeles’ Olvera Street is open daily between 9am and 8pm. La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, the Latinx cultural and community hub adjacent to Olvera Street, is open Wednesday to Sunday, 12pm to 5pm. Other businesses on and around Olvera Street have their own opening hours.

Olvera Street is one of the oldest streets in Los Angeles. It was established in 1858 in the oldest part of Downtown Los Angeles. It was named Vine/Wine Street and was renamed Olvera Street in 1877 after a judge who lived there, Agustin Olvera. The popular Mexican market opened in 1930.

Downtown Los Angeles’ Olvera Street is just 600 feet (182 meters long). It consists of 27 historic buildings and the lively Mexican marketplace. Although it’s not big, Olvera Street is a very popular Los Angeles tourist destination and a hub of local Mexican culture, craft, and cuisine.

Olvera Street is important as a focal point of Los Angeles’ Mexican culture. It’s one of the city’s oldest streets in its oldest area, the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument area. It contains some of Los Angeles’ oldest buildings and is one of the city’s most popular attractions.

Yes, admission to Olvera Street is free and anyone is welcome to browse the shops and walk around the historic area. The street’s numerous museums are free to visit, and sometimes free walking tours led by docents are also held. Some privately run walking tours do charge a fee, however.

Olvera Street’s mural is called América Tropical and was painted by artist and political activist, David Alfaro Siqueiros. It was completed in 1932, but with its depiction of native Americans being attacked and colonized, it was considered too controversial and was whitewashed. From the late 1980s, the mural was restored.

There are tons of fun things to do when you're done visiting Olvera Street. According to travelers, these are some of the top attractions in Los Angeles:

• Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Hollywood Sign

• Griffith Park

• Sunset Strip

• Hollywood

View Viator's guide to all the best attractions in Los Angeles.