Zona Rosa, Mexico City

The Zona Rosa is a neighborhood in the borough of Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City. It is located near the city center and Chapultepec Park and got its name because of the many held in pink shades houses of the district.

The Zona Rosa is essentially limited by the boulevards Reforma, Insurgentes, Chapultepec, Florencia and Bucareli. The district won, especially in the era of President Porfirio Diaz at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century as a wealthy suburb of Mexico City in importance. The then erected, often noble houses were based on the French architectural style of the time and were called casas porfirianas. Between 1891 and 1902 combined a trolleybus line with the neighborhood Chapultepec. Soon after, the area was incorporated into the capital and evolved into a mixture of business and tourist district. A popular destination of tourists are originally created in the 1960s, art galleries, owe their existence known to the part artists such as José Luis Cuevas and Guadalupe Amor. Also during the Olympic Games of 1968 drew the district to numerous guests. To date, the Zona Rosa is cosmopolitan flare and has a large number of hotels, night clubs and restaurants. There are also many shopping venues, such as markets, where local handicrafts are sold or antique shops. Some streets of the Zona Rosa, in particular Antwerp and Calle Calle Flocencia, now form the center of the gay ( sub) culture of Mexico, as many gay bars, cafes and nightclubs have settled.

" Zona Rosa" is in other Latin American cities ( Guayaquil in Ecuador, Bogotá in Colombia and San Salvador in El Salvador), the name given to the entertainment and dining and entertainment district.

19,427 - 99.1634Koordinaten: 19 ° 26 ' N, 99 ° 10' W

• District of Mexico City