Condesa is a neighborhood in the central borough of Cuauhtémoc in Mexico City. Nowadays the zone known as Condesa consists of three colonias: Condesa, Hipódromo and Hipódromo-Condesa. It is well known for its Art Deco architecture. It was developed at the turn of the 20th century (1902) in what was once the Condesa racetrack. The actual racetrack became a pair of concentric elliptical streets called Amsterdam and Avenida México. The neighborhood ...
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Condesa is a neighborhood in the central borough of Cuauhtémoc in Mexico City. Nowadays the zone known as Condesa consists of three colonias: Condesa, Hipódromo and Hipódromo-Condesa. It is well known for its Art Deco architecture. It was developed at the turn of the 20th century (1902) in what was once the Condesa racetrack. The actual racetrack became a pair of concentric elliptical streets called Amsterdam and Avenida México. The neighborhood got its name from the grounds of the old Hacienda of the Countess of Miravalle on which it was built. The hacienda's old house still exists as the Russian embassy in Mexico. The neighborhood is also notable for its restaurants, bars and sidewalk cafés.
The original Hacienda “Santa Catarina del Arenal” was created by Juan Hernández Mellado ca. 1610 and eventually came into possession of the Count of Miravalle in 1704 when it was sold by its second owner. It was during the first half of the seventeenth century that it became known as “La Condesa...
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