La Romita, Public plaza in Roma Norte district, Mexico City, Mexico

La Romita is a small square paved in stone, with a fountain at its center and trees around it. It is bordered by Puebla, Durango and Morelia streets and Avenida Cuauhtémoc. One-story older buildings and a mid-20th-century office building surround it, and the Santa María de la Natividad Aztacalco church, built in 1530, stands beside it.

Before the colonial period, this land was a small island near Tenochtitlan, part of a pre-Hispanic settlement called Aztacalco. The Spanish later built a village here, which was gradually absorbed as Mexico City expanded.

La Romita takes its name from the old village that once stood here, long before the surrounding streets were built. The small church next to the square still draws local residents and gives the corner a distinct neighborhood feel.

The square is easy to reach on foot and sits close to several metro stations in Roma Norte. Morning and early evening are good times to visit, when the neighborhood around it is most active.

Scenes from Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados were shot here in the 1940s, including the one in which the boy El Ojitos is abandoned by his father at the church. The film was not made in 1950.