Mexico
During a short visit to Mexico City a few weeks ago, I decided to stop into the largest and most visited museum in Mexico – Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology). The building was designed in 1964 by award-winning Mexican architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, along with Jorge Campuzano, and Rafael Mijares Alcérreca, and […]
Just a few blocks walk from Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral you’ll find the Iglesia de Santo Domingo (Church of Santo Domingo) which dates back to 1556. It was one of the first monasteries to be established in New Spain after the Dominicans (an order of the Catholic Church founded in 1216 by the Spanish priest […]
The Palacio de Cultura Citibanamex, located in the historic center of Mexico City at Madero Street, is the former home (and palace) of Agustín de Iturbide, who was a Mexican army general and politician. During the Mexican War of Independence, he built a successful political and military coalition that took control in Mexico City on […]
OK, this is it. We’ve come to the end of the road. This is the final series of photographs from our trip to Mexico way back in May. In my last post, I shared several photographs from our time spent in the enchanting city of Guanajuato, the loveliest city (by far) we visited in Mexico […]
I’m finally wrapping up my series of photographs from our trip to Mexico back in late May (it’s been fun, right?) with our final destination, the city of Guanajuato, located in central Mexico. Now, if you remember in my post about San Miguel de Allende, I wrote that for the fourth year in a row, […]
Sanctuary of Atotonilco: “The Sistine Chapel of Mexico” (In Pictures)
If you’ve been following this blog (and why wouldn’t you be? SUBSCRIBE HERE), you’d know that my daughter and I traveled to Mexico for two weeks back in May. We started off in Mexico City where we visited its bustling Historic Center (pics HERE), the stunning Museo Nacional de Arte (pics HERE) and the holy […]
