Polanco station

Neighbouring stations

• 7Line 7San Joaquín ← Polanco → Auditorio

The story behind the icon

The station icon is a small turret in the Lebanese baroque style that is characteristic of this part of the Federal District.

This neighbourhood is one of the most flourishing in the city and is a rich showcase of colonial-Californian architecture.

In 1930 the avenues Homero and Horacio were barely dirt tracks bounding each maize field. Avenida Masaryk was the main road to the Los Morales hacienda, then known as Avenida de la Piedra Redonda, and on Calle Arquímedes, formerly Avenida del Paredón, there were only cattle sheds.

Campos Elíseos, today one of the most luxurious avenues with the city's most exclusive shops, was the bed of the river that bounded and watered the hacienda's fields. This river, which crossed the Anzures neighbourhood, flowed into the Circuito Interior to run down the Calzada de la Verónica and pass through Consulado until reaching Lake Texcoco.

The finest mansions of the period were raised here, houses that reflected the economic boom the country was then enjoying. Today most of these houses have been turned into luxury corporate offices, exclusive shops or restaurants.

With the demolition of the first neo-Californian house, Polanco began to lose its urban character, its setting and its history. The neighbourhood sits at a central point of the city and its roads grow ever more congested owing to the density that has kept increasing.