Colonia Condesa
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 100 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5083-1351-7
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Officially, Colonia Condesa is an administrative division or "colonia” located west of the historic center of Mexico City, just south of Avenida Chapultepec. Popularly, the name "La Condesa” is named after the second, the Maria Magdalena Davalos de Bracamontes y Orozco, the Countess of Miravalle, whose lands stretched from what is now Colonia Roma to Tacubaya. When calling it just "Condesa”, refers to the adjoining colonies of Colonia Hipodromo and Colonia Hipodromo Condesa. The area began as lands belonging to two countesses in the colonial period. By the 19th century and early 20th century, the process of subdividing this land was already begun although Colonia Condesa proper would not be established until the very early 20th century. The area is considered to be fashionable and popular with younger businesspeople, artists, students and intellectuals. It features a large number of international restaurants and nightclubs, despite the fact...