The Essence of Our Neighborhood: Colonia Hipódromo Condesa in Mexico City

My husband & I just spent 2 weeks in the Hipódromo Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City. In our previous stays in Mexico, we have stayed in a variety of lodgings: in Oaxaca, we stayed in a boarding house (with a private bathroom); in Coyoacán, we stayed in a Mexican guest house; in El Centro Histórico, we stayed at a Mexican business hotel. This time, we rented a 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom condominium in the Taman Condesa on Calle Alfonso Reyes for our stay. La Condesa, which means "the Countess", is in the Cuauhtémoc Borough of Mexico City.  It is immediately west of Colonia Roma. Together they are often referred to as Condesa–Roma, one of the most architecturally significant and bastions of the creative communities of Mexico City. The bohemian district of La Condesa is a fashionable area with  wide avenues, lined with trees. It is mostly filled with restaurants, cafés, boutiques, and art galleries. It is especially popular among young business people, students, pet lovers, and ex-pats. La Condesa neighbors La Roma, a similarly artsy enclave, but with more of a hipster edge.

La Condesa was named after María Magdalena Dávalos de Bracamontes y Orozco, the Countess of Miravalle, whose lands stretched from what is now Colonia Roma to Tacubaya.

Early morning shot of the Promenade of Avenida Tamaulipas, outside our favorite breakfast haunt, Perfida Bistro Cafe

Pat walking down the Promenade of the street we lived on, Calle Alfonso Reyes

Shot of the canopy of a palm tree in one of the neighborhood promenades

Shot of one of the promenades nearby our apartment

Shot of an architecturally-interesting house in our neighborhood

I loved & was intrigued with the door frames in our neighborhood!

Another architecturally-interesting house one block from our apartment building

Loved this neighborhood door frame also!

Another house in the neighborhood that I loved!

I was also very fond of this purple house in the neighborhood

This old building was several blocks from our apartment building, but was on Calle Alfonso Reyes. It was across from our local "nieve" haunt, Neveria Roxy, so we saw it often. It was in disrepair, but I loved its bones. I dreamed about buying it & restoring it to its previous elegance.