Tijuana / Casa de la Cultura

Casa de la Cultura, after the school was Álvaro Obregón, is the first to offer introductory workshops for the arts in the city, with over 30 years of community service. Facilities include a theater for 410 spectators at the start of this administration was redesigned sound system, seats, etc.. which presents plays, concerts, recitals, etc.. Gallery also features Benjamin Serrano, who has served space launch young talents and to house works of established artists. Another area is the Literary Café where presentations of books, conferences, exhibitions by local artists, performances, etc.. Since 1987, the House of Culture houses the library "Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez" serving the student population from nearby schools and the community in general. Currently offers over 60 free art workshops, dance, music, theater, fitness, visual arts, among others. Inside the House of Culture provides formal music studies through the School of Music Northwest. History of the building: The building of the Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana is one of the most beautiful buildings owned by the city, its architecture and the value it has in the historical and cultural heritage of Tijuana. Since 1977, the state government by decree, set aside the building of the former primary school Álvaro Obregón, to Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana, and since 1998 depends to the Institute for Art and Culture. By: Samanta Torres

Tijuana / CECUT

The Tijuana Cultural Center, known as CECUT, is ubicated at Tijuana, Baja California. The principal objetive is to promove the art and cultural activites of the zone and also, other countries. History: It was inaugurated at October,20,1982, as part of the FONAPAS(Fondo Nacional para Actividades Sociales), that sought to strengthen national identity on the northern border of Mexico and also promote cultural tourism from the United States. The Cecut has identified as members of the local community, regional and binational. Attends school population, artists and creators, academia, related institutions, associations and civic groups, the media, private and public. Adress: Paseo de los Héroes No. 9350, Zona Urbana Río, Tijuana. By: Regalado Almanza Frida

Tijuana / Zona Rio

Downtown Tijuana, commonly known as Zona Río or Río Zone, is the Central business district (CBD) of Tijuana. Zona Río is located at a strategic point, in the north of the city, about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the U.S.-Mexico border and 9 miles (14 km) from Centre City in San Diego. The Río Zone is within the Centre borough, a main borough of Tijuana, and close to Tijuana International Airport. The Río Zone, as the CBD of Tijuana, is home to most of the commercial and financial businesses in the city as well as the city's main health services. The majority of Tijuana's banks, hotels, shopping squares, large hospitals, restaurants, and many other businesses are headquartered here, along Zona Río's three main avenues. Although being comparatively small in comparison with other Mexican cities central business districts, such as those of Monterrey and Guadalajara, Zona Río has notable skyscrapers, which due to the relative distance between them, are very prominent. The tallest buildings are the 28-story twin towers that are home for the Plaza Aguacaliente and Grand Hotel Tijuana, commonly known by locals as Las Torres or The Towers. Road of the Heroes Avenue One of the most important avenues in the whole city of Tijuana is the Road of the Heroes (Paseo de los Héroes). Along this avenue are located most of the financial, commercial, and touristic businesses of Zona Río and the entire city. Insurance companies, numerous banks, such as BBVA-Bancomer and Banamex, and shopping squares, such as Plaza Río Tijuana, the largest mall in the city, have their headquarters in this avenue. The cultural heart-point of the city, the Tijuana Cultural Center, is on Paseo de los Héroes. Two recently-built skyscrapers are exclusively occupied by two different hospitals and its corporations. Most of the high-end hotels of the entire city are located in Paseo de los Héroes avenue. Paseo de los Héroes is also noted for its many monuments and sculptures, like the Monumento a la Raza (Spanish for Monument to the Race), the Abraham Lincoln statue, the Ignacio Zaragoza statue, the Cuauhtémoc statue, the Lázaro Cárdenas statue, and others, to which the avenue largely owes its name, Road of the Heroes. Sanchez Taboada Boulevard In contrast to Paseo de los Heroes or Aguacaliente Boulevard, this is not one of the main avenues of the whole city, but rather only of Zona Río. This avenue is the main gastronomical corridor of Zona Río, offering the widest variety of gastronomy in the entire city. There are restaurants offering food from Thailand, Mongolia, Greece, Brazil or Israel, not to mention the typical Italian, Spanish, French, Argentinian, Chinese and American foods, plus the widespread Japanese sushi. As regards of Mexican food, the common tacos, Baja California-seafood, and the antojitos (Spanish term for traditional Mexican food), they are found almost everywhere in the avenue. Aguacaliente Boulevard This is one of the most important and largest avenues in the city, together with Paseo de los Héroes, with both crossing nearly the entire city. Prior to the opening of Tijuana's new airport at Otay district in 1958, the city's former airport was located along present-day Aguacaliente Blvd. Also one of the main gastronomical corridors in the city, and a touristic and commercial avenue, Aguacaliente Boulevard may be a combination of both Paseo de los Heroes and Sanchez Taboada Boulevard, but with a characteristic of being the place where sports auditoriums and stadiums are located. The Aguacaliente Hippodrome and Racetrack is located here. The Municipal Auditorium of Tijuana, home of both of Tijuana's basketball teams, and the Estadio Casas GeoCaliente Stadium, home of the city's newly formed soccer team. The tallest buildings of Tijuana, Las Torres, are located here, along some other buildings and public hospitals. By: Juan Manuel Pacheco

Tijuana / Zona Centro

Downtown Tijuana is referred to as the Zona Centro. It includes Revolucion Avenue, which is the main tourist drag. It is not considered by locals and tourists alike as a nice part of Tijuana, though there are some nice parts that surround it, and efforts to make an welcoming urban space. As downtowns in USA are often considered run down, Tijuana is no different. You can expect to pay tourist prices anywhere in the downtown zone, except perhaps in chain stores. Do: Pet the donkeys. Feed the donkeys. Good for children. Sample Mexican street cuisine, restaurant cuisine, buy Mexican food not commonly available nor sold in the US. Watch Mexican group dancing on some weeknights on Revo. Take an afternoon walk to the park. Parque Guerrero is only half a mile from Revolucion. (follow Carillo Puerto) several blocks past Constiticion. Lovely clean park with friendly food vendors. On Sundays there are often entertainers. Nightlife: Large nightclubs cater to partiers, girly shows, under-21 crowd from San Diego, and locals. There are also smaller bars. Buy: There are some good shops along Revolucion, but mostly they are little more than cheesy souvenir shops. There are a few "fixed price" shops as you walk south on Revolucion. The people are nice. The ladies in colorful native clothing with the little stands often have awesone painted ceramics. Just remember to haggle. The same ceramics on the "Avenida" in shops will cost at least twice as much. Eat: Restaurants vary in quality. Tourist traps are usually easy to spot. These will be overpriced, but may serve good food. Then again true Mexican prices are hard to find in downtown other than big chain stores. •La Costa •Caesar's Restaurant •Chiki Jai •El Cafe Especial •El Torito Drink: The bars on Revolucion are often packed with people from the US. The drinking age in Tijuana is 18, compared to 21 in the US, so many young people visit Tijuana to party. Revolucion is also lined with strip bars, and it is not always obvious from the outside if it is a regular bar or a strip bar, so enter with caution. •Las Pulgas, (between 7th and 8th Street on Revolucion). One of the few Zona Centro dance bars that caters mainly to locals. By: Diana Sandoval Torres

Welcome.

Welcome to our blog. This blog is for the subject of English, taught by the teacher Silvia Vanessa. It's created by Frida Regalado, Samanta Torres, Diana Sandoval and Juan Manuel Pacheco. We filed the second semester at Preparatoria Federal "Lázaro Cárdenas". In this blog you'll find information and pictures about our project ''Best places in Town'' (Tijuana). We hope you enjoy it.