Villa de Aragón station
Metro · B Line B
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- BLine BBosque de Aragón Villa de Aragón Nezahualcóyotl
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The story behind the icon
The station icon is of a group of houses.
Its background goes back to the year 1435, when the Mexica, after defeating the Tepanecs of Azcapotzalco, set new limits to the lands of the Tlatelolca, allowing them to establish their own fishing rights there. A little more than two and a half centuries had to pass before the natives of the district of Santiago Tlatelolco rented out their lands for the first time; the first person to rent those lands was the cuirassier captain Blas López de Aragón, a native of Seville, who formed the hacienda of Santa Ana, one of the oldest in the Valley of Mexico, near the Villa de Guadalupe and bordering the Guadalupe river as far as its mouth in Lake Texcoco.
This estate was of mixed type: crops were grown and cattle raised. The main house stood on what is today the Calzada de Guadalupe, where it crosses Calle Nezahualcóyotl, and resembled a medieval fortress. Over the years the hacienda changed its name to that of the village of San Juan de Aragón, which arose as a place for the hacienda's workers to live.
In the middle of the nineteenth century there were 87 houses around the main house and 458 inhabitants. In the 1970s the Department of the Federal District built there the San Juan de Aragón housing estate; a quarter of the territory is taken up by the woodland, lake and zoo of the same name, and several neighbourhoods sprang up around it, Villa de Aragón being one of them.