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Mexico cute: Ricardo Coarasa

18 articles

Hernán Cortés exhibition in Madrid (II)

It is a first step to restore wise to Hernán Cortés in History, but misses an opportunity to tell the fascinating adventure of the conquest of Mexico. It seems that he has organized in a low voice so as not to hurt susceptibilities.

byRicardo Coarasa

20 February, 2015

Hernán Cortés: a conqueror without statue (In)

She starred in one of the greatest feats of all time, the conquest of the Aztec empire, dwarfing the boldest adventure film. But, however, the gates of glory are closed to him.

byRicardo Coarasa

6 February, 2015

In Cuernavaca to Seville: the trail of Cortez

In Cuernavaca and spring flower smells and city streets seem drawn brush. It is a city that hurts go faster. Hernán Cortés knew what he was doing when he raised his residence here, the rest of the warrior, another mirage after all, as the conqueror of Mexico knew it was already too late to become a landowner sedentary.

byRicardo Coarasa

3 May, 2013

Cacaxtla: murals at war

The ancient Olmec city, especially, historical legacy 200 square meters of murals left evidence of the disappearance of the city after a bloody battle with the Teotihuacan, their bitter enemies.

byRicardo Coarasa

24 January, 2013

In defense of Mexico City

A, who loves Mexico with its strengths and weaknesses, is already a little tired of hearing anathemas on insecurity in Mexico City. One need only do a simple Google search with the words "DF insecurity". Nearly three million tickets.

byRicardo Coarasa

15 November, 2012

The Cry of a Spaniard in Puebla

For Spanish is difficult feeling abroad in Mexico. Are demasidos ties which unite us. But if there is a city where it is impossible to intuit stranger is Puebla, probably the most Spanish of Mexican cities. Except when 15 September.

byRicardo Coarasa

6 July, 2012

Taxco: by the silver route

Walking uphill on the pavement in the neighborhood of the Castles in the direction of the church of Santa Prisca is a seasoned colonial flavor overdose remains the main hallmark of Taxco: silver

byRicardo Coarasa

17 May, 2012

Tlaxcala: forbidden to remember Cortés

In few cities is as revealing a statue of his idiosyncrasies as in Tlaxcala. His ancestors were allied with Cortes to overturn the Aztec hegemony, but the only monument that remembers what happened is a statue of Xicotencatl "Young", the son of the cacique who rebelled against the Conqueror and was hanged for it.

byRicardo Coarasa

19 April, 2012

Cholula: where volcanoes spew churches

Jorge Luis leads the "muertera" leaning against the shoulder, with the same circumspection with which recalls that in his wild youth was nine times in prison. We went to the church of Los Remedios, built on the ancient Great Pyramid of Cholula, the city with more churches per square meter in all of Mexico.

byRicardo Coarasa

15 March, 2012

Teotihuacán: the city of the feathered serpent

I happen to these ancient cities that tourists go around imagining walking XXXV century on the remains of our modern cities, we thought indestructible, walking the deserted streets that barely visible remains of a skyscraper or a cathedral bell.

byRicardo Coarasa

23 February, 2012

Guadalupe: the humble wisdom of rosaries seller

If civil war broke out Mexico, a mean, Guadalupe only be able to agree to the contestants. That fervor for dark-skinned virgin breathes like no other place in the Basilica of Guadalupe. At the gates of the temple, lucid heard the phrase from my trip.

byRicardo Coarasa

13 January, 2012

El Tajin: the puzzle of the pyramid of the niches

We arrived in El Tajin, Archaeology swallowed by the jungle, ancestral pulse between stones and weeds, leaving behind rain, heat, rain again, and a grocery store after another on the shoulders, dotted watermelon vendors. By Ricardo Coarasa.

byRicardo Coarasa

23 December, 2011

Tlacotalpan: the revolution of "carpenter" Porfirio

Often, the difference between a place on the map and swell the long list of forgotten cities is an illustrious son to be proud of. Tlacotalpan is fortunate to be able to wield the birth certificate of one of the great, Mexican composer Agustin Lara.

byRicardo Coarasa

14 December, 2011

The eyes of the girl in Eyipantla Viridiana

The Eyipantla jump is one of those waterfalls that return the traveler a breath of freedom that has been left as shreds by the way of life. But not water, in, what comes to mind when I think of this cascade, but huge eyes, lively but sad, perhaps resigned. The eyes of the little Viridiana.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 December, 2011

Laguna Catemaco: between monkeys and shamans

Catemaco is a beautiful lagoon with two distinctive colorful Mexican: claims to be the world capital of witchcraft and is home to a colony of macaques relocated from Thailand. Ie, you never know if the tourists which gets into the boat come here to eat them primates in the hand or to get a "clean" spirits 100 weights.

byRicardo Coarasa

21 November, 2011

Veracruz: port of the legends

Veracruz is a place to stay stripped of duties and hours, enjoying the pleasure of reconciliation with the time, with the talks without violations. Veracruz is a port city, or a port city, which lower the flag and languish stress listening legends and terrible events that still disturb the daily cadence of jarochos.

byRicardo Coarasa

14 November, 2011

San Juan de Ulúa: the last Spanish flag in Mexico

Veracruz is the beginning and end of the Spanish presence in Mexico. Landed on its shores the ships of Hernan Cortes and there remains the last bastion colonial, the fort of San Juan de Ulua, which last lowered the Spanish flag.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 November, 2011

La Antigua Veracruz: the Rubicon of Cortez

Antigua is the back of modern Veracruz. It is not touched by the golden wand of tourism, but the mixing of Mexico today began to take shape on its shores, where nearly five centuries ago began the great adventure of Hernán Cortés, who decided to sink their ships there, not burn, to close any possibility of return and thus put towards the great Moctezuma Aztec Court.

byRicardo Coarasa

18 August, 2011