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Walking Tour

This tour aims to provide a historical and contemporary review of the societies that have lived in these neighborhoods, the socioeconomic impact and give a context of how life is today in these areas, exploring two famous, bohemian and luxurious neighborhoods where the predominant architecture (Art Deco), most relevant events, myths and legends will be explained, as well as the opportunity to taste some endemic input of Mexico (chocolate) and a very popular food in Mexican society such as tortas.

During the tour we will constantly mention a certain character and period of the country. The Porfirian or Porfiriato era refers to the period in which Mexico was governed by a president who held power for approximately 30 years. With a career in the military, Porfirio Diaz was an aspirational and dreamer character, who sought to bring Mexico to the level of European cities, so he brought many technological advances to the country (1877 to 1880 and from 1884 to 1911), such as the extension of the railway system, electricity that boosted industrial development, the automobile, whose first model arrived in Mexico between 1896 and 1898 and achieved the installation of the automotive industry, the oil industry, which was the basis of the country’s economy.

The oil industry, the basis of the economy of the time. In addition, it raised and stabilized the country’s economy, which was practically bankrupt. However, the cost of these advances was reflected in social inequality, the exploitation of the peasantry and the working class, as well as the dispossession of their lands for the exploitation of the upper class.