Mexico City: on the corner...
We really enjoyed Mexico City, the city was rich in various architectures, superb buildings and monuments. And also others things which made us enjoying more the city...
- Avenida 5 de Mayo: we liked this atmosphere here, very Paris-like with its building and architecture. Nice taxi in the front of the picture,
- Chinese district: this district was smaller that what we were expected and was composed mainly by restaurants. Lee was happy to be taken in picture in front of this bar!!
- This statue can be admired on the Paseo de la Reforma avenue. Everybody was intrigated by the design of the statue. We stopped for 5 min on the bench in front looking at the reaction of tourists in front of the statue. The blanket which is covering the animal was puzzling people! This blanket was an integral part of the statue and everybody was trying to remove it from the beast!!!
- This building was a couple of streets from the Zocalo and was a little "falling down"!!! And what a good contrast with some of the magnificient buildings around!! That gave a real charm to the city,
- We saw lots of these statues in the streets east and north of the Palacio Nacional. It shows a skeleton wearing bright colour dress. It is representative of Mexico and the "dia de los Muertos" and it is called "catrina", from a etching made by Posada in 1913 called "la calavera catrina". You can find lots of representions of this "catrina" in souvenir shops in various costumes or activities.
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