A street painted to match its name. In colonia Guerrero, just north-west of the historic centre, there is a street called Violeta — and since 2015 its facades have been painted in shades of exactly that colour. Schools, shops, houses and offices along it all took part.
Why it happened. The initiative is generally attributed to a paint-company and technology partnership that set out to colour one street in the Guerrero; when they saw that one of them was already called Violeta, the decision made itself. Not every neighbour approved, but most went along with it, and the street now has a reason to exist beyond its name.
The naming logic of the neighbourhood. Guerrero's street names come in sets. There are the national figures — Lerdo, Degollado, Moctezuma, Matamoros, Arteaga, Riva Palacio. There are the astronomical ones — Luna, Marte, Saturno, Estrella. And then there are the ones that follow no rule at all, of which Violeta is the one that got lucky.
What else is in the Guerrero. The Panteón de San Fernando, where Benito Juárez is buried; the former convent of San Hipólito; and the Museo Franz Mayer, which holds the finest decorative arts collection in the country. The neighbourhood's early twentieth-century vecindades housed Ángela Peralta, Antonio Rivas Mercado and Mario Moreno "Cantinflas".
Practical notes. Metro Guerrero, lines 3 and B, and Hidalgo, lines 2 and 3, serve the area. Visit in daylight and keep to the main streets; this is a working-class neighbourhood with a mixed reputation after dark.
in the morning or in the evening
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