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The sunset on the pacific are truly breathtaking. I hope someday to do them justice. This was taken from a ship.
Man suspended by a rope from a high pole as he and other me do a sky dance in front of Mexico City's famous Museum of Anthropology.
Climbing Pico de Orizaba and Iztaccihuatl in Mexico. See the entire photo essay here: www.kmaxphoto.com
In a hurry to finish off the Mexico photos as we leave 03 April. So many more to come in the next few days.
After visiting the Tembleque Aqueducto we came to the nearby small town of Zempoala where Father Tembleque resided in the then Franciscan Convent.
Mom and I caught a short bus out to the ancient city of Teotihuacan, home of the mysterious pyramids. It was a challenge getting to the top, amid thousands of Mexican tourists and stifling heat, but well worth the effort when looking down from the top at the amazingly huge area this ancient city covers.
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Esta iglesia fue edificada por los franciscanos en el siglo XVI terminada el 29 de septiembre de 1563, seg{un consta en la inscripcion de su bella portada plateresca. La torre es posterior a la fachada, tal vez de principios del XVII. El resto del edificio es moderno y consta de materiales y tecnica de los usados hscis 1930 cuando la iglesia fur reparada.
El templo posee una sobria fachada pero con una bella portada plateresca de cantera rosa y gris, con las inscripciones correspondientes a su fundación, donde de pronto voy leyendo “A XXIX” Lo que traduciendo abreviatura y números romanos dice “Año 1529” ¿Será esto posible? Increíblemente son solo 10 años después de la conquista de Tenochtitlán, eso quiere decir que Fray Pedro de Gante muy posiblemente pudo conocer este edificio.
unque el estado en que se encuentra el templo tiene unos cuantos, ya que en el año de 2008 sufrió severas remodelaciones y según el testimonio de los pobladores además de una denuncia ante el ministerio público el entonces párroco Sergio Oliva sustrajo obras de arte y retablos, con el pretexto de su preservación.
Obras de arte de las que no pude dar cuenta de su regreso, ya difícilmente sabremos que no estaban en un taller de restauración sino en la casa de algún político o muy posiblemente en el mercado negro de arte sacro que es lamentablemente muy difundido en este país. Por si fuera poco también se tapearon diversos arcos que poseía el templo, otros simplemente se retiraron como es el caso de unos nichos laterales que tenía la nave mayor y se quitaron lápidas muy antiguas del panteón que originalmente hubo en el atrio.
Como siempre uno se encuentra con estas atrocidades a la historia y el patrimonio que no pueden ignorarse, pero también uno celebra que a pesar de todo esto, aún existan estos templos tan antiguos y no hayan sido reemplazados por alguna inmundicia arquitectónica que se celebre como “de vanguardia”
En otra de las salas aprecié una reliquia que es la que da su nombre a la iglesia “Santa Cruz de Jerusalén” que se encuentra custodiada en una vitrinita y que pasean cada año en una procesión con banda de pueblo, para culminar en una feria en torno a la iglesia con jactanciosos juegos mecánicos y estrepitosos cohetes. Estos son los vestigios más de otro pueblo originario desde la época prehispánica y que hace ya casi un siglo se sumó a la ciudad.
This church was built by the Franciscans in the sixteenth century ended on September 29, 1563, sec {one stated in the inscription on his beautiful plateresque. The tower is later than the front, perhaps the beginning of the century. The rest of the building is modern and consists of materials and the technique used hscis 1930 when the church fur repair.
The temple has a plain facade but with a beautiful pink stone plateresque and gray, with entries corresponding to its foundation, where suddenly I'm reading "A XXIX" What translating abbreviations and Roman numerals say "Year 1529" Is this possible? Incredibly are only 10 years after the conquest of Tenochtitlan, it means that Fray Pedro of Ghent could quite possibly know about this building.
lthough the state is the temple has a few, as in the year of 2008 was severe remodeling and the testimony of villagers and a complaint to the prosecutor Sergio Oliva then-pastor stole art and retablos, under the guise of preservation.
Works of art which could not account for his return, and hardly know they were not in a restoration shop but in the house of a politician or quite possibly in the black market of religious art that is unfortunately widespread in this country . What's more diverse tapearon also had the temple arches, others simply withdrew as in lateral niches of the nave was removed and ancient tombstones of the cemetery was originally in the atrium.
As always you meet these atrocities to the history and heritage that can not be ignored, but also a place that despite all this, there are still these temples as old and not been replaced for some filth that is held as architectural " cutting edge "
In another room a relic that is appreciated that gives its name to the church "Holy Cross of Jerusalem" which is kept in a vitrinite and who walk each year in a procession with the town band, culminating in an exhibition in around the church with boastful and noisy rides rockets. These are the vestiges of another people originating from pre-Hispanic times and nearly a century ago joined the city.
From Mina Buena Tierra, located in the Santa Eulalia District, Aquiles Serdan, Chihuahua, Mexico comes this 6" wide specimen.
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Limestone sarcophagus with relief depicting King Pakal - reconstruction of royal tomb from Temple of Inscriptions at Palenque, Mayan civilization, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City
This is a beautifully carved Maya stela from the collection of the Tamayo Museum in Oaxaca. The stela is carved in the Usumacinta Basin style, but there is no indication where this piece was found
Mexico City's Metropolitan Cathedral is the largest Catholic church in the Americas and dominates the city's main square, the huge Zocalo (the third largest square in the World). It's facade flanked by bell towers is an impressive piece of Baroque architecture and a major local landmark.
It was originally founded in the 1520s on the orders of Hernan Cortes to replace the main temple and pyramid of Huitzilopotchli at the heart of the old Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, the stonework of which was recycled in the new building. This rudimentary first church was itself replaced when the present, much grander cathedral was begun in 1570, and was not complete for a further two centuries, in a mixture of Renaissance, Baroque and Neo Classical styles.
The most striking thing about the cathedral is the great width of the principal facade on the main square (which faces south, not west) with it's two flanking bell towers and the domed Sacristry to the right, practically a separate church with two stunningly detailed churriguesque facades. Like much of the city the cathedral is built on unstable ground (a former river bed) and has been sinking, resulting in some serious leaning in the towers; it looks quite unsafe, though thorough restoration in the 1990s has stabilised the structure and removed it from the endangered monuments list at least.
The interior was a surprise for me, as the only images I'd seen suggested it was rather dull and sombre, but on a sunny morning the light flooded in at clerestorey level (the surrounding chapels were rather gloomy) and illuminated the richly gilded furnishings at the west end. Sadly as this was also sunday morning (unbelieveably bad scheduling by our tourguide) no visitors were allowed beyond the nave and we had to be content with gazing into the transept and crossing without being able to see the high altar reredos or the sumptuous chapel of the three kings (we could however glimpse a surreal banner appearing to show a cartoony Jesus welcoming children to his private jumbo jet!!).
Our busy schedule meant frustratingly that our only other chances to get inside to see the 'east' end would be after dark the next evening so rather than do this we put faith in the opening hours given in Rough Guide suggesting the cathedral opened at 7.30am, giving us time for a half hour wander before our bus left at 8am. Infuriatingly the cathedral doors were indeed flung open bang on target, but the great impenetrable railing that surrounds it remained padlocked until just after 8am, just as we had to leave the city! :-(