Polanco (Mexico)
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| Coordinates: 19°26′N 99°12′W / 19.433°N 99.200°W | |
| Website | http://www.polanco-online.com.mx |
Polanco is a famous and upscale district in Mexico City. The neighborhood is notable because of its cultural diversity, some of the wealthiest families in Mexico and Latin America that have homes in Polanco, and a very long list of politicians, celebrities, artists and businessmen that call the area home.
The neighborhood is also populated with expensive offices, restaurants, museums, luxurious stores and shopping malls; some embassies are also located in Polanco, including the embassy of Canada. Its Avenida Presidente Masaryk is the highest-priced street and the one with the most upscale boutiques in Latin America. It is compared by some to Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive or New York City's Fifth Avenue
The area is located in the Miguel Hidalgo borough of Mexico City, situated north of Chapultepec Park and consisting of five official neighborhoods ("colonias").
The colony takes its name from a river that crossed what is now the Avenue Campos Elisios (Champs Elysees), named in memory of the Spanish Jesuit , a secretary of Ignatius of Loyola, whose relatives, members of the , were members of board of the Kings of Spain in the 17th century and came to Mexico as officers of the Crown.
In a plane made by Francisco Antonio Guerrero y Torres and dated 1784, a "ruined house Polanco" is located on the grounds of the Hacienda de San Juan de los Morales. This hacienda sits on land donated in the sixteenth century to Hernán Cortés by the King of Spain, under the jurisdiction of Tacuba. At the beginning of the colonial times, parts of this land (near the current center of the Hacienda) were occupied for planting mulberry trees for breeding silkworms (hence the name "los morales"). The hull of the Hacienda as currently known dates from the eighteenth century. Extension lands belonging to the estate began to be divided in the late 1920s.
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