El Colegio Nacional

The National College is a Mexican honorary academy with a strictly limited membership created by presidential decree in 1943 in order to bring together the country's foremost artists and scientists, who are periodically invited to deliver lectures and seminars in their respective area of speciality.
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  • Type: College
  • Description: Mexican honorary academy
  • Also known as: “Colegio Nacional” and “Colegio Nacional de México”
  • Address: 23 Calle Luis González Obregón, 06020

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral and Templo Mayor.

Church
Photo: Nan Palmero, CC BY 2.0.
The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven, also commonly called the , is the cathedral church of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico. is situated 220 metres southwest of El Colegio Nacional.

Ruins
Photo: GAED, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The was the main temple of the Mexica people in their capital city of Tenōchtitlan, which is now . Its architectural style belongs to the late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica. is situated 170 metres southeast of El Colegio Nacional.

Museum
Photo: Juanterrazas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Caricature Museum is located in an 18th-century Baroque building in the historic center of . It was opened in 1987 to preserve and promote the history of Mexican cartooning, done for both political and entertainment purposes.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Centro and Tlatelolco.

Photo: Uwebart, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The old city center or Histórico of , centered on the Plaza de la Constitución, has been the heart of the nation since Aztec times. Its colonial and European architecture and narrow cobblestone streets set it apart from the rest of Mexico City.

Quarter
Photo: Diego Rivera, Public domain.
was a pre-Columbian altepetl, or city-state, in the . Its inhabitants, known as the Tlatelolca, were part of the Mexica, a Nahuatl-speaking people who arrived in what is now central Mexico in the 13th century.

Neighborhood
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is one of the better-known neighborhoods or colonias in the Cuauhtémoc borough of . The neighborhood is shaped like a long triangle with the boundaries: Paseo de la Reforma on the north, Avenida Chapultepec on the south, and Eje 1 Poniente on the east. is situated 3 km west of El Colegio Nacional.

El Colegio Nacional

Latitude
19.43623° or 19° 26′ 10″ north
Longitude
-99.13224° or 99° 7′ 56″ west
Roof shape
flat
Operator
El Colegio Nacional
Open location code
76F2CVP9+F4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 276671572
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­college
Wiki­data ID
Q5142859
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“El Colegio Nacional” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الكلية الوطنية المكسيكية”
  • Armenian: “Ազգային կոլեգիա”
  • Catalan: “Colegio Nacional”
  • Danish: “Colegio Nacional”
  • Dutch: “Colegio Nacional”
  • Esperanto: “Meksika Nacia Kolegio”
  • French: “Colegio Nacional”
  • Galician: “Colegio Nacional”
  • Hebrew: “הקולגיום הלאומי של מקסיקו”
  • Irish: “El Colegio Nacional”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Colegio Nacional”
  • Portuguese: “Colegio Nacional”
  • Russian: “Национальная коллегия Мексики”
  • Slovenian: “Colegio Nacional de México”
  • Slovenian: “Colegio Nacional”
  • Slovenian: “Mehiška narodna akademija”
  • Spanish: “Colegio Nacional de Mexico”
  • Spanish: “Colegio Nacional de México”
  • Spanish: “Colegio Nacional”
  • Spanish: “El Colegio Nacional (Mexico)”
  • Spanish: “El Colegio Nacional (México)”
  • Spanish: “El Colegio Nacional”
  • Ukrainian: “Національна колегія Мексики”
  • Welsh: “Colegio Nacional”

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