Van Dick 73
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Van Dick 73, also known as La vecindad de Teresa, is the street address of the famous low-income apartment complex (vecindad
) used in the 2010 telenovela
Teresa starring Angelique Boyer
.
The vecindad was used as the home setting for Teresa, Mariano, Esperanza, Juana, and Cutberto and their families. It is located in the Benito Juárez
delegación in Mexico City
.
The building boasts a simple architecture in the traditional Nonoalco colonia. The vecindad is painted a light lavender on the top, with a crimson on the lower bottom. The interior scenes were probably shot in a sound stage
, with the exterior shots filmed on the center patio.
The vecindad is said to be 70 years old, making its construction date somewhere near 1940. Sunken windows and cracked paint, as well as exposed areas of the brick are evidence of the building's aging and apparent need for reconstruction. The vecindad has attracted many people who watch Teresa, and the street names "Van Dick" and "Leonardo Da Vinci" of the location's intersection appear in the telenovela.
The vecindad is in an apparent state of deterioration, it has been claimed that it will be demolished in a few months.
Vecindad
a Vecindad is a Mexican term for a building containing several housing units. Originally a form of housing created through the subdivision of vacated elite housing in historic centres in Mexican cities, where rooms around a central patio were let to families who shared facilities with the other...
) used in the 2010 telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
Teresa starring Angelique Boyer
Angelique Boyer
Angelique Boyer is a French-born Mexican actress, model, and singer. She started her career playing secondary roles in the telenovelas Rebelde, Muchachitas como tú, and Corazón Salvaje. In 2010, she was given her first protagonist role in Teresa, a remake of the 1959 telenovela of the same name...
.
The vecindad was used as the home setting for Teresa, Mariano, Esperanza, Juana, and Cutberto and their families. It is located in the Benito Juárez
Benito Juárez, D.F.
Benito Juárez is one of the 16 delegaciones into which Mexico's Federal District is divided. It is a largely residential area, located to the south of historic center of Mexico City, although there are pressures for areas to convert to commercial use. It was named after Benito Juárez, president in...
delegación in Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
.
The building boasts a simple architecture in the traditional Nonoalco colonia. The vecindad is painted a light lavender on the top, with a crimson on the lower bottom. The interior scenes were probably shot in a sound stage
Sound stage
In common usage, a sound stage is a soundproof, hangar-like structure, building, or room, used for the production of theatrical filmmaking and television production, usually located on a secure movie studio property.-Overview:...
, with the exterior shots filmed on the center patio.
The vecindad is said to be 70 years old, making its construction date somewhere near 1940. Sunken windows and cracked paint, as well as exposed areas of the brick are evidence of the building's aging and apparent need for reconstruction. The vecindad has attracted many people who watch Teresa, and the street names "Van Dick" and "Leonardo Da Vinci" of the location's intersection appear in the telenovela.
The vecindad is in an apparent state of deterioration, it has been claimed that it will be demolished in a few months.