-
-
Recent Posts
Archives
Categories
Recent Comments
- Prague, Czech Republic. February 2016 | SvetaNYC on Terezin. Czech Republic. February 2016
- Terezin. Czech Republic. February 2016 | SvetaNYC on Prague, Czech Republic. February 2016
- Venice, Italy. Part II. February 2016. | SvetaNYC on Venice, Italy. Part I. February 2016
- Istanbul, Turkey. July 2015 | SvetaNYC on Meteora, Greece. July 2014
- Google on Malta. July 2015
Meta
Mexico City, Mexico. September 2015
http://svetanyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/DSC_9423-190x127.jpg
“In Mexico, Spaniards encountered history as well as geography. This history is still alive: it is a present rather than a past. The temples and gods of pre-Colombian Mexico are a pile of ruins, but the spirit that breathed life into that world has not disappeared: it speaks to the hermetic language of myth, legend, forms of social co-existence, popular art, customs.” Octavio Paz in his Nobel Laureate address in 1990 The home of tequila, Aztecs, sombreros and Maya pyramids – not to mention Pancho Villa, Diego Rivera, El Chapo and Carlos Slim (though of Lebanese ancestry) – almost everyone on the planet …
Posted in North America
Tagged "Pancho" Villa, Agustin de Iturbide, altepetl, Amerindians, Aztec, Basilica of Our Lady of Guadelupe, Benito Juarez, Bosque de Chapultepec, Calzada de los Mortes, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Casa de Azulejos, Charles V, Church of San Francisco, Diego Rivera, Dominican order, Eagle Warriors, El Chapo, El Lago Restaurant, Emiliano Zapata, Enrique Pena Nieto, Francisco Modero, Frida Kahlo, Great Temple, Hernan Cortez, Huitzilopochtli, Jorge Mendoza, Juan Diego, JW Marriott Mexico City, La Ciudadela, La Malinche, La Reforma, La Virgen de Guadalupe, Lake Texcoco, mariachi, Mesoamerica, mestizo, Mexican muralism, Mexican Revolution, Mexican wedding, Mexico, Mexico city, Miguel Hidalgo, Moctezuma II, Museo Nacional Antropologia, New Spain, obsidian, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Palacio Nacional, pipiltin, Porfiriato, Porfirio Diaz, Pyramid of the Sun, Quetzalcóatl, syphilis, Templo de Quetzalcoatl, Templo Mayor, Tenochtitlan, Teotihuacan, Tepanec, Tlatelolco Massacre, Toltecs, wedding, www.tripadvisor.com, Zócalo
Leave a comment