Barrios Mágicos of Mexico City

The “Barrios Mágicos” of Mexico City is a list of twenty one areas in the Federal District, which have been named “magical neighborhoods” in order to attract tourism to them. The program is sponsored by the city government but is patterned after the “Pueblos Mágicos” (Magical Towns) program of the Mexican federal government.[1][2] However, one difference is that the city does not require the “barrios” to make changes in their appearance to be accepted.[1]

The first of the barrios were named in 2011 by city Secretary of Tourism Alejandro Rojas Díaz Durán.[3] Each of the twenty one named neighborhoods received stylistic scrolls with the accreditation with acceptance by registration in the official newspaper called the Gaceta Oficial del DF.[1] The first to receive its scroll was Santa María Magdalena Atlitic.[4]

The twenty one neighborhoods include the historic center of Coyoacán, the Roma-Condesa zone, the historic center of Xochimilco, San Ángel, San Agustín de la Cuevas (historic center of Tlalpan), Santa María la Ribera, Zona Rosa, Garibaldi, Villa de Guadalupe, Mixcoac, Tacubaya, Santa María Magdalena Atlitic, historic center of Azcapotzalco, La Merced, Mixquic, historic center of Cuajimalpa, San Pedro Atocpan, Pueblo Culhuacán, Tacuba, Santa Julia and the historic center of Iztacalco.[5] The city's Secretary of Tourism plans on having thirty such neighborhoods,[1] with areas such as the Los Dinamos ecological reserve nominated.[3]

The neighborhoods have been declared only on paper as the neither the city or the boroughs have the money to promote them.[1] The program's legality has been questioned by the president of the ALDF Tourism Commission, Carlo Pizano as the designations were made without prior public publication.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Ayala, Fabiola (August 3, 2011). "Denominan barrios mágicos en el DF, pero sólo en el papel" [Designate magical neighborhoods in Mexico City, but only on paper]. Publimetro (in Spanish) (Mexico City). Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Impulsa el DF 21 áreas como Barrios Mágicos Turísticos" [The Federal District promotes 21 areas as Magical Neighborhoods for Tourism]. Excelsior (in Spanish) (Mexico City). August 3, 2011. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "DF tendrá 21 Barrios Mágicos, ¡conócelos!" [The Federal District will have 21 Magical Neighborhoods, Get to know them!]. El Universal (in Spanish) (Mexico City). April 20, 2011. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Aldaz, Phenélope (August 2, 2011). "Cuestionan validez de Barrios Mágicos" [Question the validity of the Magical Neighborhoods]. El Universal (in Spanish) (Mexico City). Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  5. ↑ Quintanar Hinojosa, Beatriz, ed. (November 2011). "Mexico Desconocido Guia Especial:Barrios Mágicos" [Mexico Desconocido Special Guide:Magical Neighborhoods]. Mexico Desconocido (in Spanish) (Mexico City: Impresiones Aereas SA de CV): 5–6. ISSN 1870-9400.