Colonia Nápoles

It is bordered by:[https://web.archive.org/web/20130812194744/http://delegacionbenitojuarez.gob.mx/nuestra-demarcacion/ "Nuestra Demarcación" (Our borders), Delegación Benito Juárez website, archive of 2013-08-12]

• Viaducto Río Becerra and colonia San Pedro de los Pinos on the west
• Viaducto Río Becerra and Viaducto Miguel Alemán, and colonia Escandón on the north
• Avenida de los Insurgentes and Colonia del Valle on the east
• on the south, colonia Ampliación Nápoles stretches from Calle Georgia to Eje 5 Sur San Antonio; across San Antonio is colonia Ciudad de los Deportes.

Landmarks include the World Trade Center complex with offices, restaurants, cinemas and shopping, and the Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros, a performing arts center designed and painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros one of the most important muralists and painter in Mexico.

One of the original developments here in the late 1930s was Parque de la Lama, designed by Raúl Basurto, one of the principal architects of many of the new residential areas in Polanco, Colonia del Valle, Roma, Condesa and others. The neighborhood was one of the most important spots for new modern architects as Vladimir Kaspé or young Pedro Ramírez Vázquez new buildings. Also in a section of the neighborhoods, in the 1940s, the covenant required buyers to build single-family houses in a historic style called "Colonial California",{{cite book|title=Artifacts of Revolution: Architecture, Society, and Politics in Mexico City|author=Patrice Elizabeth Olsenand|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BG4iQvOQ8isC&pg=PA202|page=202}} (a Mexican term for the California style of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture). Many houses of this style can still be seen in Nápoles. Sample of the architecture in Mid-century modern style, is the house designed in 1946 for the recognized architect Vladimir Kaspé in the corner of the streets of Dakota and Nueva Jersey. La Nápoles and La del Valle are the most iconic mid-century neighborhoods in the city. More recently, contemporary apartment buildings have been built as infill, some by Javier Sánchez.

The neighborhood has the Parque Alameda Nápoles (Alfonso Esparza Oteo), a {{convert|22593|sqm|acre|1|adj=on}} park.[https://web.archive.org/web/20130812194744/http://delegacionbenitojuarez.gob.mx/nuestra-demarcacion/parques "Parques", Delegación Benito Juárez website, archive of 2013-08-12]

The area is served by the Mexico City Metrobús and EcoBici bikeshare.

Metrobus stations

• Image:Mexico City Metrobús Line 1 icon.svg Nápoles
• Image:Mexico City Metrobús Line 1 icon.svg Poliforum
• Image:Mexico City Metrobús Line 1 icon.svg La Piedad

Image:Colonial California house in colonia Nápoles, Mexico City.jpg|Colonial California house in colonia Nápoles

Image:Polyforum Siquieros and WTC in background.jpg|Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros and WTC in background

Image:Polyforum Siquieros portraits of Mexican muralists.jpg|Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros portraits of Mexican muralists

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