The Barrios Mágicos are twenty-one areas in
Mexico City
Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and finan ...
highlighted by the city government to attract
tourism
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; the program is sponsored by the city government and is patterned after the "
Pueblos Mágicos" (Magical Towns) program of the Mexican federal government.
However, one difference is that the city does not require the “barrios” to make improvements in their appearances to be accepted.
The first of the barrios were named in 2011 by city
Secretary of Tourism Alejandro Rojas Díaz Durán.
Each of the twenty-one named neighborhoods received stylistic scrolls with the accreditation with acceptance by registration in the city’s
official gazette, Gaceta Oficial del DF.
The first to receive its scroll was Santa María Magdalena Atlitic.
The twenty-one neighborhoods include the historic center of
Coyoacán
Coyoacán ( ; , Otomi: ) is a borough (''demarcación territorial'') in Mexico City. The former village is now the borough's "historic center". The name comes from Nahuatl and most likely means "place of coyotes", when the Aztecs named a pre- ...
, the
Roma-
Condesa zone, the historic center of
Xochimilco,
San Ángel
San Ángel is a ''Colonia (Mexico), colonia'' (neighborhood) located in the southwest of Mexico City in Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City, Álvaro Obregón borough. Historically it was a rural community called Tenanitla in the pre-Hispanic period. It ...
,
San Agustín de la Cuevas (historic center of Tlalpan),
Santa María la Ribera,
Zona Rosa,
Garibaldi,
Villa de Guadalupe,
Mixcoac,
Tacubaya,
Santa María Magdalena Atlitic, historic center of
Azcapotzalco
Azcapotzalco ( ; ; from ''wikt:azcapotzalli, āzcapōtzalli'' “anthill” + ''wikt:-co, -co'' “place”; literally, “In the place of the anthills”) is a Boroughs of Mexico City, borough (''demarcación territorial'') in Mexico City. Azcap ...
,
La Merced,
Mixquic, historic center of
Cuajimalpa
Cuajimalpa de Morelos (; more commonly known simply as Cuajimalpa) is a Boroughs of Mexico City, borough (''demarcación territorial'') in Mexico City. It is located on the west side of the city in the Sierra de las Cruces mountains which separate ...
,
San Pedro Atocpan,
Pueblo Culhuacán,
Tacuba,
Santa Julia and the historic center of
Iztacalco.
The city's Secretary of Tourism plans on having thirty such neighborhoods,
with areas such as the Los Dinamos ecological reserve nominated.
The neighborhoods have been declared only on paper as neither the city nor the boroughs have the money to promote them.
Circa 2011 the program's legality was questioned by Carlo Pizano, then president of the ALDF Tourism Commission, because the designations were made without prior public publication.
References
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Tourism in Mexico
Tourist attractions in Mexico City
Geography of Mexico City
Barrios Mágicos