Colonia Nápoles is a
colonia, is an officially recognized neighborhood in
Benito Juárez borough,
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of ...
, and one of the iconic Mid-Century neighborhoods of Mexico City along with Colonia Del Valle.
Location
It is bordered by:
* Viaducto Río Becerra and colonia
San Pedro de los Pinos
San Pedro de los Pinos is a neighborhood located in center-west of Mexico City. Before being urbanized during the first half of the 20th century, the colonia was part of a vast farming area belonging to several ranches and haciendas.
Location
...
on the west
* Viaducto Río Becerra and
Viaducto Miguel Alemán, and colonia
Escandón
Escandón is one of the Colonia (Mexico), colonias of Mexico City that were founded at the beginning of the 19th century on crop terrains that were formerly part of Hacienda de la Condesa, belonging to Condesa de Miravalle. This colony formed p ...
on the north
*
Avenida de los Insurgentes and
Colonia del Valle on the east
* on the south, colonia Ampliación Nápoles stretches from Calle Georgia to
Eje 5 Sur San Antonio; across San Antonio is colonia
Ciudad de los Deportes
Ciudad de los Deportes (literally: Sports City) is a neighborhood in Benito Juárez, Mexico City.
The neighborhood was initially planned to have several sports facilities including tennis courts, swimming pools, football fields and gymnasiums (he ...
.
Description
Landmarks include the
World Trade Center complex with offices, restaurants, cinemas and shopping, and the
Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros, a performing arts center designed and painted by
David Alfaro Siqueiros one of the most important muralists and painter in Mexico.
One of the original developments here in the late 1930s was Parque de la Lama, designed by
Raúl Basurto, one of the principal architects of many of the new residential areas like Polanco, a section of Roma or Del Valle, Hipódromo and others. The neighborhood was one of the most important spots for new modern architects as Vladimir Kaspé or young
Pedro Ramírez Vázquez new buildings. Also in a section of the neighborhoods, in the 1940s, the covenant required buyers to build single-family houses in a historic style called "Colonial California", (a Mexican term for the California style of
Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
The Spanish Colonial Revival Style ( es, Arquitectura neocolonial española) is an Architectural style, architectural stylistic movement arising in the early 20th century based on the Spanish Colonial architecture of the Spanish colonization of th ...
). Many houses of this style can still be seen in Nápoles. Sample of the architecture in
Mid-century modern style, is the house designed in 1946 for the recognized architect
Vladimir Kaspé in the corner of the streets of Dakota and Nueva Jersey. La Nápoles and
La del Valle are the most iconic mid-century neighborhoods in the city. More recently, contemporary apartment buildings have been built as
infill
In urban planning, infill, or in-fill, is the rededication of land in an urban environment, usually open-space, to new construction. Infill also applies, within an urban polity, to construction on any undeveloped land that is not on the urban mar ...
, some by
Javier Sánchez.
The neighborhood has the Parque Alameda Nápoles (Alfonso Esparza Oteo), a park.
"Parques", Delegación Benito Juárez website, archive of 2013-08-12
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Transportation
Public transportation
The area is served by the Mexico City Metrobús
The Mexico City Metrobús (former official name Sistema de Corredores de Transporte Público de Pasajeros del Distrito Federal), simply known as Metrobús, is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system that has served Mexico City since line 1 opened on 1 ...
and EcoBici bikeshare.
Metrobus stations
* Nápoles
* Poliforum
* La Piedad
Gallery
Image:Colonial California house in colonia Nápoles, Mexico City.jpg, Colonial California house in colonia Nápoles
Image:Polyforum Siquieros and WTC in background.jpg, Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros and WTC
WTC may stand for:
Buildings
*World Trade Center (disambiguation)
**World Trade Center (1973–2001) in New York, a seven-building complex in Lower Manhattan that was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks
**World Trade Center (2001–presen ...
in background
Image:Polyforum Siquieros portraits of Mexican muralists.jpg, Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros portraits of Mexican muralists
References
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Benito Juárez, Mexico City
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