Zone Map

Roma / Condesa

ROMA NEIGHBORHOOD
Since the beginning of the 20th century, this neighborhood was created for the upper crust of the time; hence the “Belle Époque” mansions we still admire in the Roma Norte neighborhood, which concentrates most of the cultural and touristic activities. Later, it was extended to Roma Sur neighborhood. Both were declined over time, and the 1985 earthquake toppled down many buildings. Recently, the area had an intellectual and cultural renaissance, as an extension of the neighboring Condesa neighborhood.

CONDESA NEIGHBORHOOD
María Magdalena Dávalos, Third Countess of Miravalle, was a descendant of Spanish aristocrats on one side, and of Moctezuma on another, was the heiress of the huge Tacubaya Hacienda in the 18th century. At the turn of the 20th century, the Jockey Club built a hippodrome in the Hacienda’s land, which was closed after the Revolution. The Hipódromo Condesa neighborhood began in 1925, neighboring the Roma neighborhood, with which it shared the decline and the tragedy brought upon by the 1985 earthquake. It has revived as the fashionable rive gauche of Mexico City.