Colonia Roma
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Neighborhood with 27,800 residents
- Description: Mexico City colonia
- Also known as: “Colonia Roma Norte”
- Postal code: 06700
Places of Interest
Highlights include Salón de la Plástica Mexicana and Museo del Objeto del Objeto.
Salón de la Plástica Mexicana
Arts center
Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Salón de la Plástica Mexicana is an institution dedicated to the promotion of Mexican contemporary art. It was established in 1949 to expand the Mexican art market.
Museo del Objeto del Objeto
Museum
Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museo del Objeto del Objeto, or MODO, is a museum in Mexico City and the first museum in Mexico dedicated to design and communications. It was opened in 2010 based on a collection of commercial packaging, advertising, graphic arts, common devices and many other objects dating back to 1810 collected by Bruno Newman over more than 40 years.
Plaza Río de Janeiro
Park
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Plaza Río de Janeiro is a public park in Roma, Mexico City. It is east of Fuente de Cibeles and north of Plaza Luis Cabrera. The central feature of Plaza Río de Janeiro is a fountain with a replica of Michelangelo’s David.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zona Rosa and Little Seoul.
Zona Rosa
Photo: Virtual Raider, CC BY 2.0.
Zona Rosa is a business and entertainment district located in a portion of Colonia Juárez, near the center of Mexico City. It is one of the city's most touristy areas, filled with hotels, dance clubs, restaurants, bars and live bands.
Little Seoul
Neighborhood
Pequeño Seúl is a Koreatown in Mexico City. Most of the city's Korean population lives in and around the Zona Rosa. According to the newspaper Reforma, there are at least 5,000 Koreans living in Zona Rosa and about 6,000 total in Colonia Juárez, the larger officially recognized neighborhood of which the Zona Rosa is a part of.
Centro Urbano Benito Juárez
Locality
Photo: Gobierno CDMX, CC0.
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.
Colonia Roma
- Categories: Mexico City colonia, gay village, and locality
- Location: Cuauhtémoc Borough, Mexico City, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
19.41832° or 19° 25′ 6″ northLongitude
-99.16257° or 99° 9′ 45″ westPopulation
27,800Elevation
2,241 metres (7,352 feet)Open location code
76F2CR9P+8XOpenStreetMap ID
node 9041879677OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
7280714Wikidata ID
Q584381
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Colonia Roma” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “科洛尼亚罗马”
- Chinese: “科洛尼亞羅馬”
- Chinese: “罗马社区”
- Czech: “Colonia Roma”
- Dutch: “Colonia Roma”
- French: “Colonia Roma”
- German: “Colonia Roma”
- Italian: “Colonia Roma”
- Japanese: “コロニア・ローマ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Colonia Roma”
- Norwegian: “Colonia Roma”
- Polish: “Colonia Roma”
- Portuguese: “Colonia Roma”
- Spanish: “Col Roma”
- Spanish: “Col. Roma”
- Spanish: “Colonia Roma”
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