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Towards the end of the 19th century, Dr. Eduardo Liceaga proposed the construction of a new hospital to fulfill the sanitary needs of the city. The General Hospital began its construction in 1896, with a total budget for the project of four million eight thousand pesos, and was inaugurated on February 5, 1905, by president Gral.
Revolución is a station on Line 2 of the Mexico City Metro system. [2] [3] It is located in the Colonia Tabacalera and Colonia Buenavista districts in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, northwest of the city centre, on Avenida México - Tenochtitlan. [2] It was first opened to the public on 14 September 1970. [4]
The Monumento a la Revolución, or Monument to the Revolution, is located on Plaza Revolución, which is the second largest plaza in Mexico City after the Zócalo. [5] The avenue that passes by the Monumento a la Revolución had been called Avendida del Calvario, Avenida del Ejido, and Prolongación de Avenida Juarez before receiving its ...
San Ángel. In Mexico, the neighborhoods of large metropolitan areas are known as colonias.One theory suggests that the name, which literally means colony, arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when one of the first urban developments outside Mexico City's core was built by a French immigrant colony.
The Mexico City Metrobús Line 2 is a bus rapid transit line in the Mexico City Metrobus. It operates between Tepalcates, in Iztapalapa and Tacubaya in the Miguel Hidalgo municipality, in western Mexico City. Line 2 has a total of 36 stations and a length of 20 kilometers and it runs from east to west through Eje 4 Sur. [1]
Colonia San Rafael is a colonia of the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, just west of the historic city center. It was established in the late 19th century as one of the first formal neighborhoods outside of the city center and initially catered to the wealthy of the Porfirio Díaz era. These early residents built large mansions, many with ...
Benito Juárez (Spanish: [beˈnito ˈxwaɾes] ⓘ), is a borough (demarcación territorial) in Mexico City.It is a largely residential area, located to the south of historic center of Mexico City, although there are pressures for areas to convert to commercial use.
Marchers at the 2009 Gay Pride Parade Amberes street in Mexico City's Zona Rosa is lined with gay bars. Another prominent area is Amberes Street, home to Mexico City's gay community. [6] This community was established in the 1990s due to the area's overall tolerance and the fact that police here did not extort members of the gay community. [19]