What it feels like. Anzures sits against the Bosque de Chapultepec, close to the museums and shared with a large part of the city's foreign community. It gives you the restaurants and boutiques of Polanco without being inside one of the busiest districts in the city — a quiet neighbourhood that is nonetheless part of the most active part of town, with a population skewed young.
Where it came from. It was established as a residential district in the early twentieth century on the land of the former Anzures ranch, bought by the Englishwoman Werner Beit and by the Mexican government through the minister José Yves Limantour, in order to extend and improve the Bosque de Chapultepec. That origin is why it sits where it does, between the park and Polanco.
What is within walking distance. The Museo Nacional de Antropología and the Museo Tamayo, in the first section of Chapultepec; the castle on the hill; Parque Lincoln and Avenida Presidente Masaryk in Polanco; and the Ángel de la Independencia along Reforma.
Practical notes. Metro Chapultepec and Sevilla, line 1, and Polanco and Auditorio, line 7. Chapultepec closes on Mondays, as do its museums. Parking is scarce; the district is walked.
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