Escandón
Escandón is one of the colonias of Mexico City that were founded at the beginning of the 19th century on crop terrains that were formerly part of Hacienda de la Condesa, belonging to Condesa de Miravalle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: Mexico City colonia
- Also known as: “Colonia Escandón”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chapultepec and Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros.
Chapultepec
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chapultepec is a district of Mexico City. "Chapultepec" means "Grasshopper Hill" in Nahuatl, the language of the "Aztecs". The hill and surrounding district has much significance in Mexican history.
Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros
Theater building
Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros is a cultural, political and social facility located in Mexico City as part of the World Trade Center Mexico City. It was designed and decorated by David Alfaro Siqueiros in the 1960s and hosts the largest mural work in the world called La Marcha de la Humanidad.
Luis Barragán House and Studio
Museum
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Luis Barragán House and Studio, also known as Casa Luis Barragán, is the former residence of architect Luis Barragán in Miguel Hidalgo district, Mexico City.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tacubaya and Del Valle.
Tacubaya
Neighborhood
Photo: Henryficar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tacubaya is a working-class area of Mexico City in the borough of Miguel Hidalgo. The colonia Tacubaya and adjacent areas in other colonias are collectively referred to as Tacubaya. San Miguel Chapultepec sección II, Observatorio, Daniel Garza, and Ampliación Daniel Garza are also considered part of Tacubaya.
Del Valle
Photo: StellarD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Avenida Insurgentes runs south of the central downtown areas cutting through two large, mostly residential neighborhoods: Colonia del Valle and Narvarte.
Condesa and Roma
Photo: Payton Chung, CC BY 2.0.
The Condesa and Roma district of Mexico City is a residential and restaurant area on both sides of Insurgentes avenue between Viaducto Miguel Alemán in the south and Avenida Chapultepec in the north.
Escandón
- Category: Mexico City colonia
- Location: Miguel Hidalgo Borough, Mexico City, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Escandón” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Escandón”
- French: “Escandón”
- Portuguese: “Colonia Escandón”
- Spanish: “Col Escandon”
- Spanish: “Col Escandón”
- Spanish: “Col. Escandon”
- Spanish: “Col. Escandón”
- Spanish: “Colonia Escandon”
- Spanish: “Colonia Escandón”
- Spanish: “Escandon”
- Spanish: “Escandón”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Patriotismo metro station and World Trade Center Mexico City.
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