The Mother's Monument features three distinct sculptures arranged within an open, geometric plaza. You can identify the site by its central figure of a mother holding a child, flanked by an indigenous man writing and a woman holding an ear…
San Rafael Midcentury Walk
This neighborhood walk takes you through a nostalgic corner of Mexico City where Porfirian-era mansions, mid-century modernist theaters, and legendary cinema palaces stand side-by-side.
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1. Mother's Monument
2. Museo Experimental el Eco
The Museo Experimental el Eco is distinguished by its sharp, angular architecture, characterized by walls painted in yellow, black, and gray that seem to defy the rigid functionalism common in the nineteen fifties. Conceived in nineteen…
3. SPECIAL OF PARIS
La Especial de París stands on Avenida Insurgentes Centro as a century-old institution in the San Rafael neighborhood. It began in nineteen twenty-one as a humble cart traveling the streets, selling simple lime snow cones and vanilla ice…
4. "Jorge Negrete" Theater
The Jorge Negrete Theater, located at Manuel Ignacio Altamirano number one hundred twenty-eight in the San Rafael neighborhood, is marked by an expansive lobby mural created by the artist David Alfaro Siqueiros. This venue, originally…
5. Teatro Aldama
The Teatro Aldama sits on Rosas Moreno Street in the Colonia San Rafael, an area often called the Mexican Broadway because of the concentration of theaters that appeared here in the middle of the twentieth century. The venue is a mid-sized…
6. La Privada Roja
La Privada Roja is a three-level property defined by its dense masonry of red bricks and more than four hundred pine doors and windows lacquered in bright vermilion. Constructed in nineteen oh seven in the San Rafael neighborhood, the…
7. Cine Opera
The Cine Opera stands on Serapio Rendón Street with a facade defined by two large stone sculptures, depicting the masks of comedy and tragedy, which flank a central window. Inaugurated in nineteen forty-nine, the theater was designed by…