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(Don't look at me)
"No me mires, no me mires (no me no me)
no me mires, no me mires, déjalo ya "
Mecano.
Mexico City is known for the amazing quantity and quality of its street food vendors. These ladies were kept very busy filling orders on the sidewalk outside Mercado de Coyoacán.
Me regalé un sábado en el DF para visitar la extraordinaria exposición sobre la Edad Media en España y su legado en México. Y concluí en la terraza del Hotel Majestic, contemplando el Zócalo y esta curiosa tradición de los pajaritos que te dan un papelito con tu suerte. A mí me recomendó sonreir : )
Capilla de San Lorenzo Mártir (Xochimanca) one block off Av. Insugentes Sur on Calle Magnolias in Parque San Lorenzo.
The Nahuatl name, Xochimanca, means “place where flowers are offered.” The city of this name has existed since ancient times. It was probably a small fishing and agricultural settlement until shortly after the arrival of the Spanish.
The town church, the Temple of San Lorenzo Mártir, dates back to the 16th century.
The building is made of brick and volcanic stone and the bell tower is known for the “Mixcoac” style with its special coloured brick.
The tower brick colour is attributed to the nearby brick factories, most notably the one in historic Parque Hundido, just across the avenue - the Christmas Eve Brick Company (Compañía Ladrillera de la Nochebuena in Parque Hundido.
The surrounding town of San Lorenzo Xochimanca today is part of the Tlacoquemécatl Del Valle neighbourhood of Mexico City.
The chapel was rebuilt in the 17th century by the Franciscans.
The Festival in honor of San Lorenzo Mártir has been celebrated here for about 400 years every August 10.
The old town of San Lorenzo Xochimanca is no longer remembered except as the original town name.
The Chapel of San Lorenzo Mártir, formerly known as San Lorenzo Xochimanca is located within the garden of San Lorenzo Park in Colonia Del Valle, one block from Avenida de los Insurgentes South.
The beautiful garden previously had a much darker appearance when it was used as a cemetery until it was closed 23 January, 1901.
That imposition did not matter in the least to the local population as they continued to bury their deceased there until 1918.
In 1949, the General Directorate of National Assets asked those interested to move their relatives to another cemetery as the area was about to be converted into the garden seen today.
Magnolia
Magnolia grandiflora
Clasificación científica
Reino: Plantae
Subreino: Tracheobionta
División: Magnoliophyta
Clase: Magnoliopsida
Subclase: Magnoliidae
Orden: Magnoliales
Familia: Magnoliaceae
Subfamilia: Magnolioideae
Tribu: Magnolieae
Género: Magnolia
Magnolia es un género con alrededor de 120 especies de plantas de la familia de las Magnoliáceas. Se localizan principalmente en el este de Estados Unidos, México, Centroamérica, sudeste de Asia y Sudamérica.
Origen del nombre
El género lleva el nombre de Pierre Magnol, botánico de Montpellier (Francia). La primera especie identificada de este género fue M. virginiana, encontrada por unos misioneros enviados a Norteamérica en la década de 1680. También allí se encontró M. grandiflora, ya en el siglo XVIII.
Evolución
La magnolia es una antigua familia que evolucionó antes de que aparecieran las abejas, por lo que las flores se desarrollaron de forma que pudieran ser polinizadas por escarabajos. Como consecuencia, poseen duros carpelos para evitar su deterioro. Se han encontrado especímenes fosilizados de M. acuminata con 20 millones de años y se han podido identificar plantas pertenecientes a la familia Magnoliaceae que datan de hace 95 millones de años. Otra característica distintiva de las magnolias es la ausencia de sépalos o pétalos; en su lugar poseen tépalos, término que se acuñó para referirse a este elemento intermedio.
Fuente: Wikipedia
We have arrived at Jardin de la Paz in Tlatelolco's Nonoalco -Tlatelolco Housing Project.
A group was enjoying a morning work out under the shade of the plaza amphitheatre.
The Conjunto Urbano Nonoalco Tlatelolco (officially Conjunto Urbano Presidente López Mateos) is the largest apartment complex in Mexico, and second largest in North America, after New York's Co-op City.
The complex is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City. It was built in the 1960s by architect Mario Pani.
(Love in the "litle dark")
"...y la luz de un cigarrillo dibujándonos la piel" / "... and light of a cigarette drawing in our skin"
Our visit to Museo de Arte Moderno continues in the outdoor sculpture garden. The garden has approximately 70 pieces.
10 of 15.
The garden features a collection of 20th and 21st-century sculptures by Mexican artists.
Juan Soriano’s bronze Pájaro de dos caras was made 1999-2000.
Juan Soriano is a self-taught artist who's work moves between figuration and abstraction, the met-aphorical and the fantastic.
In the 1990s, Soriano began to work with large-scale sculpture, synthesizing formal experimentations with painting and other mediums such
as drawing, tapestry, enamel, and serigraphy.
The sculpture entitled Pájaro de dos caras(Bird with two faces) is evocative of Janus, the god of gateways in Roman mythology.