Colonia San Juan

San Juan
Neighborhood of Mexico City
Plaza Valentín Gómez Farías

Location of Colonia San Juan (in red) within Benito Juárez borough
Country  Mexico
City  Mexico City
Borough Benito Juárez
Postal code 03730

Colonia San Juan is a neighborhood in Benito Juárez, Mexico City.

Location

Colonia San Juan is located in the Benito Juárez borough, in southern Mexico City.

The neighborhood is bordered by:[1][2]

Description

The neighborhood is mainly a residential zone, with some small shops and businesses such as: convenience stores, tailor shops, restaurants and tortillerías.

The colonia has one public plaza, the Plaza Valentín Gómez Farías, that dates back to the 17th century.[3] The former house of Mexican president Valentín Gómez Farías, where he was even buried some years after his death in 1858, is located on one of the sides of the plaza. The building now houses Instituto Mora, a public research school.[4]

Colonia San Juan has one church, the Parroquia San Juan Evangelista y Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Church of Saint John the Evangelist and Our Lady of Guadalupe) a colonial building, dating back to the 17th century.[4] The church has pieces of great artistic value, such as an oil painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe and a sculpture of John the Evangelist.[5] The church is located in front of Plaza Valentín Gómez Farías.

Besides Valentín Gómez Farías, other notable historical residents include Mexican intellectual Ireneo Paz, grandfather of Mexican writer and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, who lived in a 19th century house that is still in the neighborhood but is now used as a house of Dominican preachers.[3]

Education

Colonia San Juan is home to the Instituto de Investigaciones Doctor José María Luis Mora or simply Instituto Mora, a public research institution focusing on History, Sociology and Regional Studies. The institute is located in the building that was the house of Valentín Gómez Farías, President of Mexico for five short periods in the 1830s and 1840s.[6]

Transportation

Public transportation

The area is served by Mexico City Metro and EcoBici bikeshare.

Metro stations

References

  1. ↑ "Nuestra Demarcación" (Our borders), Delegación Benito Juárez website, archive of 2013-08-12
  2. ↑ Mapa de colonias de la Delegación Benito Juárez (Map of colonias of the Benito Juárez borough
  3. 1 2 "A la Plaza Gómez Farías "le quitaron la historia": vecinos". Proceso (in Spanish). March 24, 2012. Retrieved June 14, 2018.
  4. 1 2 Delegación Benito Juárez. "La Plaza Valentín Gómez Farías, un sitio de alto valor histórico en Benito Juárez" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-06-14.
  5. ↑ CDMX Travel. "Parroquia San Juan Evangelista y Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-06-14.
  6. ↑ "Historia del Instituto Mora" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-06-14.


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