map.JPG
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map.JPG
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 portents.JPG 80.81 Kb "The Aztecs found an eagle devouring a serpent, the signal the gods gave them in order to identify the place where they were to build their city ... " |
 Catedral_Metropolitana.JPG 69.16 Kb |
 Catedral_Metropolitana_1.JPG 109.37 Kb |
 Catedral_Metropolitana_2.JPG 117.03 Kb |
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 Palacio_Nacional.JPG 66.89 Kb |
 Rivera_mural_1.JPG 108.71 Kb |
 Rivera_mural_2.JPG 126.78 Kb |
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 Rivera_mural_4.JPG 130.79 Kb |
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 Palacio_Iturbide.JPG 126.62 Kb "Once the home of Agustín Iturbide, briefly the self proclaimed Emporor of Mexico" |
 Plaza_de_las_Tres_Culturas_1.JPG 75.14 Kb Aztec, colonial Spanish, and Mexican Indian. |
 Plaza_de_las_Tres_Culturas_2.JPG 70.63 Kb |
 Santiago_Tlatelolco_1.JPG 107.24 Kb Built using stones from the ruins of the Aztec marketplace that formerly (some centuries earlier) occupied the site. |
 Santiago_Tlatelolco_2.JPG 64.59 Kb |
 Santiago_Tlatelolco_3.JPG 71.50 Kb The white lines are patched earthquake damage. |
 Santiago_Tlatelolco_4.JPG 47.74 Kb |
 Templo_de_la_Profesab.JPG 87.99 Kb Here's a challenge: rotate the image so it "looks right". Can't do it? The building on the left really is tilting about 10 degrees rightward. Mexico City is sinking unevenly into its lakebed! |
 El_carcamo_del_Lerma.JPG 124.17 Kb In 1951 Diego Rivera painted the mural Water, the Origin of Life which theme was executed over the walls and floors of a distributing pile of water located in the woods of Chapultepec. During more than 40 years, the mural remained under the water. |
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Jardin_de_Tepeyac .JPG 120.64 Kb |
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 Simon_y_nopales.JPG 87.23 Kb |
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 Quetzalcoatl_beasties_1.JPG 87.65 Kb |
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 Temple_of_Quetzalcoatl.JPG 54.67 Kb |
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 Pyramid_of_the_Moon.JPG 57.20 Kb |
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 Simon_and_Moon.JPG 61.07 Kb |
 Sun_and_Moon.JPG 53.82 Kb |
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