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Colonia Roma

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Colonia Roma, also called La Roma or simply, Roma, is a district located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City just west of the city’s historic center, and in fact is no longer a single colonia (neighbourhood) but now two officially defined ones, Roma Norte and Roma Sur, divided by Coahuila street. [1]

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Art Deco

Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.

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Avenida Álvaro Obregón

Avenida Álvaro Obregón is an avenue in the Roma district of Mexico City, divided by a park median along which fountains are located with characters from Roman and Greek mythology.

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Avenida de los Insurgentes

Avenida de los Insurgentes (Insurgents' Avenue), sometimes known simply as Insurgentes, is the longest avenue in Mexico City, with a length of on a north-south axis across the city.

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Barrios Mágicos of Mexico City

The “Barrios Mágicos” of Mexico City is a list of twenty one areas in the Federal District, which have been named “magical neighborhoods” in order to attract tourism to them.

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Bosques de las Lomas

Bosques de las Lomas is a colonia, or officially recognized neighborhood, located in western Mexico City.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Bruno Newman

Bruno Newman is a businessman from Mexico City.

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Bus rapid transit

Bus rapid transit (BRT, BRTS, busway, transitway) is a bus-based public transport system designed to improve capacity and reliability relative to a conventional bus system.

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Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Macías (November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist.

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Carlos Mérida

Carlos Mérida (December 2, 1891 – December 21, 1985) was a Guatemalan artist who was one of the first to fuse European modern painting to Latin American themes, especially those related to Guatemala and Mexico.

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Casa Lamm

The Casa Lamm Cultural Center is the best known landmark in Colonia Roma.

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Centro Urbano Benito Juárez

The Centro Urbano Benito Juárez, more commonly called the Multifamiliar Juárez, was a large apartment complex built on the southeast section of Colonia Roma, Mexico City in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Ciudad Universitaria

Ciudad Universitaria (University City), Mexico, is the main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), located in Coyoacán borough in the southern part of Mexico City.

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Colegio Amado Nervo

Colegio Amado Nervo is a private school with two campuses in Colonia Roma Sur, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City.

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Colonia (Mexico)

In general, colonias are neighborhoods in Mexican cities, which have no jurisdictional autonomy or representation.

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Colonia del Valle

Colonia del Valle (Spanish for: Del Valle neighborhood) is a neighborhood in the Benito Juarez borough of Mexico City.

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Colonia Doctores

Colonia Doctores is an official neighborhood just southwest of the historic center of Mexico City.

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Colonia Juárez, Mexico City

Colonia Juarez is one of the better–known neighborhoods or colonias in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City.

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Colonia Narvarte

Colonia Narvarte is the commonly used name for an area in the Benito Juárez borough of Mexico City.

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Colonia San Rafael

Colonia San Rafael is a colonia of the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, just west of the historic city center.

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Colonia Santa María la Ribera

Colonia Santa María la Ribera is a colonia located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, just west of the historic center.

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Condesa

Condesa or La Condesa is an area in the Cuauhtémoc Borough of Mexico City, south of the Zona Rosa and 4 to 5 km west of the Zócalo, the city's main square.

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Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City

Cuauhtémoc, named after the former Aztec leader, is one of the 16 boroughs of the Federal district of Mexico City.

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David (Michelangelo)

David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo.

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EcoBici (Mexico City)

EcoBici is the bicycle sharing system launched in February 2010 by the government of Mexico City.

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Eduardo García (Mexican chef)

Eduardo García is a Mexican chef and founder of Mexico City restaurants Máximo Bistrot and Lalo! He is often considered one of Mexico's top chefs.

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Eje vial

The system of Ejes viales (singular: eje vial, lit. "road axis") in Mexico City is a large network of wide arterial roads with coordinated traffic signals.

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El Palacio de Hierro

El Palacio de Hierro (El Palacio de Hierro S.A. de C.V.) (The Iron Palace) is an upscale chain of department stores in Mexico.

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Food hall

A food hall in the United Kingdom is "a large section of a department store, where food is sold".

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Francisco Toledo

Francisco Benjamín López Toledo (born July 17, 1940, Juchitán, Oaxaca) is a Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist.

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Fuente de Cibeles (Mexico City)

The fountain of Cibeles in Mexico City is a bronze replica of the fountain located in the Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid that was built during the reign of Charles III by architect Ventura Rodríguez between 1777 and 1792.

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Guillermo Kuitca

Guillermo Kuitca (born 1961 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine artist, who continues to work and live in Buenos Aires.

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Hernán Cortés

Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca (1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.

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Hipster (contemporary subculture)

The hipster subculture is stereotypically composed of younger and middle-aged adults who reside primarily in gentrified neighborhoods.

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Historic center of Mexico City

The Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México (Historic Centre of Mexico City Historic Center of Mexico City), also known as the Centro or Centro Histórico, is the central neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico, focused on Zócalo or main plaza and extending in all directions for a number of blocks, with its farthest extent being west to the Alameda Central.

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History of Mexico

The history of Mexico, a country in the southern portion of North America, covers a period of more than three millennia.

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Interlomas

Interlomas is a residential and commercial area in State of Mexico, Mexico, located west of Mexico City's historic center and about north of the Santa Fe edge city.

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Jardín Edith Sánchez Ramírez

Jardín Edith Sánchez Ramírez is a pocket park in Colonia Roma, Mexico City.

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Jardín Ramón López Velarde

Jardín Ramón López Velarde (Ramón López Velarde garden) is a park in Mexico City in the southeast corner of Colonia Roma Sur in front of the Centro Médico Siglo XXI medical center.

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José Emilio Pacheco

José Emilio Pacheco Berny (June 30, 1939 – January 26, 2014) was a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer.

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La Romita

La Romita is a small neighborhood located in the Colonia Roma section of Mexico City.

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Lake Texcoco

Lake Texcoco (Lago de Texcoco) was a natural lake within the "Anahuac" or Valley of Mexico.

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List of neighborhoods in Mexico City

In Mexico, the neighborhoods of large metropolitan areas are known as colonias.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Lomas de Chapultepec

Lomas de Chapultepec is a colonia, or officially recognized neighborhood, located in the Miguel Hidalgo borough of Mexico City.

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Los Olvidados

Los Olvidados (Spanish for "The Forgotten Ones"), known in the U.S. as The Young and the Damned, is a 1950 Mexican film directed by Luis Buñuel.

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Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel Portolés (22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in Spain, Mexico and France.

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Luis Zapata (writer)

Luis Zapata Quiroz (born 1951) is a Mexican writer, who is one of the most prominent gay writers in Mexican literature.

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Mario Pani

Mario Pani Darqui (March 29, 1911 – February 23, 1993) was a famous Mexican architect and urbanist.

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Mercado Medellín

The Mercado de Medellín ("Medellín market"), also Mercado Medellín and officially Mercado Melchor Ocampo is a public market located on Medellín street in Colonia Roma Sur neighborhood of Mexico City.

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Mercado Roma

Mercado Roma ("Roma market") is a public market in the format of a gourmet food hall located on Querétaro street in the Colonia Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City.

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Metro Centro Médico

Metro Centro Médico is an underground metro station on the Mexico City Metro.

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Metro Chilpancingo

Metro Chilpancingo is an underground metro station along Line 9 of the Mexico City Metro.

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Metro Cuauhtémoc

Metro Cuauhtémoc is a metro (subway) station on the Mexico City Metro.

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Metro Insurgentes

Insurgentes is a station on the Mexico City Metro.

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Metro Sevilla

Sevilla is a station on Line 1 the Mexico City Metro.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mexico City

Mexico City, or the City of Mexico (Ciudad de México,; abbreviated as CDMX), is the capital of Mexico and the most populous city in North America.

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Mexico City College

Mexico City College was founded in 1940, as an English speaking junior college in Mexico City, Mexico.

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Mexico City Metro

The Mexico City Metro (Metro de la Ciudad de México), officially called Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, often shortened to STC, is a metro system that serves the metropolitan area of Mexico City, including some municipalities in Mexico State.

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Mexico City Metrobús

The Mexico City Metrobús (officially Sistema de Corredores de Transporte Público de Pasajeros del Distrito Federal and simply known as Metrobús) is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system that has served Mexico City since line 1 opened on June 19, 2006.

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Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

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Municipalities of Mexico City

Mexico City is divided into sixteen delegaciones (mayoralties or boroughs) (alcaldías), which have regulatory powers and are not fully autonomous in their internal administration.

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Museo del Objeto del Objeto

The Museo del Objeto del Objeto (Museum of the Object of the Object), or MODO, is a museum in Mexico City and the first museum in Mexico dedicated to design and communications.

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National Autonomous University of Mexico

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (Spanish: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, - literal translation: Autonomous National University of Mexico, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico.

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Otomi

The Otomi (Otomí) are an indigenous people of Mexico inhabiting the central Mexican Plateau (Altiplano) region.

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Paco Stanley

Francisco "Paco" Jorge Stanley Albaitero (July 3, 1942 – June 7, 1999) was a Mexican television entertainer who worked for Televisa and TV Azteca.

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Parque Delta (shopping center)

Parque Delta is an enclosed shopping mall in Colonia Piedad Narvarte in Mexico City, at the southeast corner of Colonia Roma.

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Parque España

Parque España is a park in the Colonia Hipódromo (neighborhood) of the Condesa district, in the Cuauhtémoc borough, in west-central Mexico City.

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Parque México

The Parque México (lit.), also known as the Parque San Martín, is a large urban park located in Colonia Hipódromo in the Condesa area of Mexico City.

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Pesero

A pesero, micro or microbús is a form of public transport, most commonly seen in Mexico City.

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Pocket park

A pocket park (also known as a parkette, mini-park, vest-pocket park or vesty park) is a small park accessible to the general public.

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Polanco, Mexico City

Polanco is the main urban upscale district in Mexico City, part of the Miguel Hidalgo borough, located north of Chapultepec Park and consisting of five official neighborhoods ("colonias").

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Puebla City

Puebla (Spanish: Puebla de Zaragoza), formally Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza and also known as Puebla de los Ángeles, is the seat of Puebla Municipality, the capital and largest city of the state of Puebla, and one of the five most important Spanish colonial cities in Mexico.

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Roberto Márquez (painter)

Roberto Marquez (born 1959) is a painter originally from Mexico.

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Sears (Mexico)

Sears Operadora Mexico SA De CV is a department store chain located in Mexico, operating more than 75 stores all over Mexico.

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Secretariat of Culture

The Secretariat of Culture (Secretaría de Cultura), formerly known as the National Council for Culture and Arts (Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes or CONACULTA), is a Mexican government agency in charge of the nation's museums and monuments, promoting and protecting the arts (visual, plastic, theatrical, musical, dance, architectural, literary, televisual and cinematographic), and managing the national archives.

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Tecamachalco, State of Mexico

Tecamachalco is the common name for a Mexico City suburban neighborhood, colonia Lomas de Tecamachalco, which forms part of the city of Naucalpan, in Naucalpan and Huixquilucan municipalities, in the State of Mexico.

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Toluca

Toluca, officially called Toluca de Lerdo, is the state capital of the State of Mexico as well as the seat of the Municipality of Toluca.

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Trolleybuses in Mexico City

The Mexico City trolleybus system (Red de Trolebuses de la Ciudad de México) serves Mexico City, the capital city of Mexico.

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Universidad de Londres

The Universidad de Londres (Spanish, "University of London") is a university in Mexico with multiple campuses in the Colonia Roma and Doctores neighborhoods of Mexico City, and Queretaro City, Mexico.

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Viaducto Miguel Alemán

Viaducto Miguel Alemán is a crosstown freeway, opened in September 1950, that runs east-west across central Mexico City.

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Woolworth Mexicana

Woolworth Mexicana is a chain of retail variety stores which were founded by the F. W. Woolworth Company of the United States.

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Zona Rosa, Mexico City

Zona Rosa is a neighborhood in Mexico City which is known for its shopping, nightlife, gay community, and its recently established Korean community.

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1985 Mexico City earthquake

The 1985 Mexico City earthquake struck in the early morning of 19 September at 07:17:50 (CST) with a moment magnitude of 8.0 and a Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonia_Roma

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