Mexico City: Roma and Condesa

I stayed in the Roma neighborhood, which I would recommend to any visitor who wants to escape the anonymity of downtown. Its boulevards and parks are decorated with figures drawn from mythology and Western art.

Coffee and galleries are in abundance.

Here and throughout the city, you will often encounter what look like improvisational gardens of flowers and corn, next to the sidewalks or on the margins of playgrounds.

It is a neighborhood where the pedestrian is blessed. Doing nothing for a day came as a relief after the city’s size and high altitude exhausted me. The adjacent neighborhood, Condesa, is an enclave of mansions and beautiful people with their dogs or strollers. It’s one of the few areas where you can easily find non-Mexican food.

Walk even farther and the frenzy and ostentation of the city returns.

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Comments

[M Martin]

It seems like a very beautiful place but what about expenses?

[Avery Palmer]

I suppose it depends where you're from, but with U.S. dollars it's very inexpensive.

[Jorge Torres]

Typo: Mexico is country in North America not South.

[Jorge Torres]

Typo: Mexico is country in North America not South.

[Jorge Torres]

Typo: Mexico is country in North America not South.