From the early 1900s, it became a mixture of mansions and apartment buildings, with major constructions such as the now Monument to the Revolution and the El Moro skyscraper built in the first half of the century.

There is a mistaken belief that the block immediately north of Puente de Alvarado also belongs to this colonia, but records show that this was never the case.

[5][6] Because of the newspapers, which operate early in the morning, and the cantinas and prostitution, which work very late, the colonia is considered to be one “which never sleeps” (detrioro).

The most popular cantinas are located on Ignacio Mariscal Street: Bar Oxford, La Gruta de San Fernando, and the Salon Palacio.

Other problems include vendors tapping illegally into electrical lines, trash, and “franeleros,” people who control public parking spaces for a tip.

[10] Major landmarks include the Monumento a la Revolución, Frontón México, the Museo Nacional de San Carlos (former Palace of the Counts of Buenavista), and the headquarters of the National Lottery.

The collection includes photographs, flags, arms, documents, re-creation of rooms and other spaces, and utilitarian and decorative items from the time period.

The budget for the project was 240 million pesos, which included reparations to the building, expansion of the museum space to 3,650 m2, and the creation of an underground parking garage.

This art collection began with plaster casts of original Greek, Roman, and European works to be used as teaching aids at the school.

In the 1940s, the National Lottery occupied the building in part and held drawings there, before moving to its current location at Rosales Street and Avendia Del Ejido.

[5] From the early colonial period, this area was outside of Mexico City and filled with farms and haciendas near Lake Texcoco.

[11] Later, much of the area belonged to the Counts of Buenavista, whose country home still exists on Puente de Alvarado Street as the Museum of San Carlos.

[4] The modern colonia was founded with a mixture of mansions and apartment complexes to be similar to neighboring Santa Maria Ribera and San Rafael.

[5] On 4a Calle de la Paz, today Ezequiel Montes, one of the first raids against homosexuals in the city took place in 1901, in which 41 men were detained.

[7] From the 1930s to the 1950s, the colonia took on a bohemian reputation as writers and artists such as Juan Rulfo, Ricardo Bell, Nellie Campobello, and Pablo Neruda lived there and the area was filled with traditional Mexican cantinas.

[7][11] Argentine revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara also lived there as an exile, working at the Hospital General in nearby Colonia Doctores.

[7][21] On 49 José de Emparán Street in apartment C, the home of Cuban exile Maria Antonia Gonzalez, Fidel Castro met Che Guevara in July 1955.

The La Rosa streetcar from the 1920s, which ran on Avenida de las Artes (today Antonio Caso) ceased to operate as well.

[4] Many residential areas were replaced with buildings such as the Procuraduria General de la Republica and the headquarters of a number of unions.