Colonia Nápoles

Nápoles
Neighborhood of Mexico City
Colonial California house and World Trade Center in colonia Nápoles
Location of Colonia Nápoles (in red) within Benito Juárez borough
Country	Mexico
City	Mexico City
Borough	Benito Juárez
Area
• Total	0.976 km2 (0.377 sq mi)
Population (2015)
• Total	12,106[1]
Postal code	03810

Colonia Nápoles is a colonia, is an officially recognized neighborhood in Benito Juárez borough, Mexico City, and one of the iconic Mid-Century neighborhoods of Mexico City along with Colonia Del Valle.

Location

It is bordered by:^[2]

• Viaducto Río Becerra and colonia San Pedro de los Pinos on the west
• Viaducto Río Becerra and Viaducto Miguel Alemán, and colonia Escandón on the north
• Avenida de los Insurgentes and Colonia del Valle on the east
• on the south, colonia Ampliación Nápoles stretches from Calle Georgia to Eje 5 Sur San Antonio; across San Antonio is colonia Ciudad de los Deportes.

Description

Landmarks include the World Trade Center complex with offices, restaurants, cinemas and shopping, and the Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros, a performing arts center designed and painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros one of the most important muralists and painter in Mexico.

One of the original developments here in the late 1930s was Parque de la Lama, designed by Raúl Basurto, one of the principal architects of many of the new residential areas like Polanco, a section of Roma or Del Valle, Hipódromo and others. The neighborhood was one of the most important spots for new modern architects as Vladimir Kaspé or young Pedro Ramírez Vázquez new buildings. Also in a section of the neighborhoods, in the 40´s, the covenant required buyers to build single-family houses in a historic style called "Colonial California",^[3] (a Mexican term for the California style of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture). Many houses of this style can still be seen in Nápoles. Sample of the architecture in Mid-century modern style, is the house designed in 1946 for the recognized architect Vladimir Kaspé in the corner of the streets of Dakota and Nueva Jersey. La Nápoles and La del Valle are the most iconic mid-century neighborhoods in the city. More recently, contemporary apartment buildings have been built as infill, some by Javier Sánchez.

The neighborhood has the Parque Alameda Nápoles (Alfonso Esparza Oteo), a 22,593-square-metre (5.6-acre) park.^[4]

Transportation

Gallery

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  Colonial California house in colonia Nápoles
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  Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros and WTC in background
• 
  Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros portraits of Mexican muralists

References