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Law enforcement in Mexico City is provided by two primary agencies; the Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City (Secretaría de Seguridad Ciudadana de la ciudad de México), who provide uniformed or preventative police, and the Office of the Attorney General of Mexico City (Fiscalía General de Justicia de la Ciudad de México) who provide plainclothes detectives and crime lab services
In November 2007, the Auditorio Nacional won the Billboard Touring Award for best concert venue under 10,000 seats. [2] Auditorio Nacional houses the largest pipe organ in Latin America. [citation needed] In 2016, it hosted the premiere of the largely anticipated comic-book film, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
The hotel opened on February 27, 2003, as the Sheraton Centro Historico Hotel & Convention Center. [1] It was designed by Pascal Arquitectos , developed by Inmobiliaria Interpres and constructed from 2001 to 2003, [ 2 ] with Proarquitectura as the main contractor and Aguilar Ingenieros as the structural engineer.
Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel. The Maria Isabel Hotel was built in 1962 by Bolivian tycoon Antenor Patiño.He named the hotel for his late daughter, Maria Isabel Patiño de Goldsmith, [1] who died in 1954, at the age of 17, from complications in the seventh month of pregnancy, after eloping with 20-year-old British heir James Goldsmith.
With landmarks such as Chapultepec Park and the Museo Nacional de Antropología, it is the second most visited borough in Mexico City after Cuauhtémoc where the historic center of Mexico City is located. Tacubaya and Tacuba both have long histories as independent settlements and were designated as “Barrios Mágicos” by the city for tourism ...
In 1946, the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Institute of the Fine Arts) was created as a government agency to promote the arts and was initially housed at the Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, the Museo del Libro and other places. It is now at the Palacio. [2] In this theatre, Maria Callas debuted in the opera Norma in 1950. [5]
Originally named Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos del Distrito Federal and owned by the then-Mexican Federal District government, STE was created on 31 December 1946 to replace the privately run Compañía de Tranvías de México (Mexico City Tramways Company), [5] operator of the city's tramway/streetcar network. However, it did not ...
Cuauhtémoc (Spanish pronunciation: [kwawˈtemok] ⓘ), named after the 16th-century Aztec ruler Cuauhtémoc, is a borough (demarcación territorial) of Mexico City.It contains the oldest parts of the city, extending over what was the entire urban core of Mexico City in the 1920s.