Tourist attraction
Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola
Bosque de Chapultepec Primera Seccion S/N, San Miguel Chapultepec I Sección, Miguel Hidalgo, 11850 Ciudad de México, CDMX
French-style former clubhouse on an artificial lake, now UNAM's first off-campus cultural center.
This guide to Casa del Lago in Mexico City follows the artificial lake President Porfirio Díaz had dug into the Chapultepec woods ahead of Mexico's independence centennial, and the exclusive Automobile Club clubhouse his government raised on its shore in 1908. It traces the mansion through the Revolution, when Francisco Madero seized it for the nation, and the drifting decades before UNAM converted it into a cultural center in 1959, putting the writer Juan José Arreola in charge. Listen here by the water's edge, where the lake built for a dictator's party still sits.
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