Mexico City Art & Culture Tours

02/08/2024

Synchronized Diving - Silver for Mexico🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽❤️❤️❤️🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

30/07/2024

Prehispanic city of Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan, Mexico. Just 3 hours away from Mex City.
One of the most important sites still active prior tu conquest in 16th century.

25/07/2024

Without Fear...

In the Mexican Revolution, Fortino Sámano was shot dead on June 12, 1917 by a platoon of Mexican soldiers.

The photograph of him smoking his last cigarette has been exhibited in galleries across Europe and a copy is part of the collection of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

It was also reproduced in the prestigious collection Photo Poche Number 52, dedicated to Augustine V. Casasola, from the National Photography Center in Paris. The original is housed in the National Photo Library of the INAH in Mexico City.

In the image Fortino waits for the platoon to be unloaded. Body erected and calm look as telling the soldiers and the small group of curious: if it's time to die, this is how it's done: "smiling at death".

24/07/2024

Some trivia:

🇲🇽Viridiana Álvarez is the first Latin American woman to climb the five highest mountains in the world.

(1) Everest 🇨🇳🇳🇵
(2) K2 🇵🇰 🇨🇳
(3) Kanchenjunga 🇮🇳 🇳🇵
(4) Lothse 🇨🇳 🇳🇵
(5) Makalu 🇨🇳🇳🇵

She holds the World record for the fastest ascension of the first three mountains mentioned.

21/07/2024

SWISS ENCHILADAS

It all starts in the times of the Second Mexican Empire (1864-1867), when many regional dishes were added European cream and cheeses.
Emperor Maximilian's cooks made adjustments to Mexican recipes to satisfy the ruler's taste and reduce the spiciness. And I don't mean the chef Josef Tudos or the cook Gräf, but the modest butler Rodrigo Llanes.

At the fall of the empire in June 1867, Llanes settled with his family in Coahuila carrying with him his recipe book. This is narrated by the chef owner of the restaurant Jolgorio, great-grandson of this cook or butler.
Years passed, and when the Mexican Revolution broke out, the "Imperial Cook" returned to the CDMX with his family fleeing the war.

In this city opened the CAFE IMPERIO where they prepared many of the recipes that Maximilian de Habsburg tasted, such as the Panqué Imperio or the dish Dientes de Odalisca, which were actually Skites with cream and cheese.
Just like chicken enchiladas in salsa verde with cream and granite cheese, the iconic Swiss Enchiladas.

It is said that the name comes because the cheese reminded the emperor of the snow that covered the Swiss Alps, or because the name was very "avant garde", when everything French was fashionable in the Porphyriate.

Cafe Imperio ended up closing its doors, many of its customers began to suggest that they prepare them in other popular restaurants in the capital, among them the agonizing Jockey Club in the old palace of the Counts of the Valley of Orizaba, better known as the House of Tiles.

Starting in 1917, the brothers Walter and Frank Sanborns would rent this place where they popularized and perfected them, becoming an iconic Mexican dish.

19/07/2024

At the Kutchitril. A little hole in the wall with delicious artisanal pizza in stone oven…yum

09/07/2024

Quick shots of the Marble Palace turned museum…

08/07/2024

Beautiful evening last night with Monument of Independence looking stunning as usual

08/07/2024

Visiting the aviary in Polanco at Lincoln Park

04/07/2024

Yes you can even get yourself a decent German dog with great beer…Polanco

03/07/2024

Guadalajara Cathedral

03/07/2024

Guadalajara, Guadalajara 🎼‼️

03/07/2024

The beautiful Degollado Theatre, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

30/06/2024

Historic Centre of Guadalajara

30/06/2024

A long corridor that takes you from the Hospice to the Historic Center (Guadalajara, Jalisco)

30/06/2024

The Cabañas Hospice with iconic murals by Jose Clemente Orozco, native of Jalisco…

30/06/2024

Tribute to Chucho Reyes, Mexican painter from the state of Jalisco (Guadalajara is the Capitol), from the 30’s and 40’s

30/06/2024

Visual nibbles of Guadalajara…the Historic Centre.

27/06/2024

Day trip to Guadalajara City, Mexico. Just an hour away by plane and 6 by bus. Either way you win…

07/06/2024

Troncones, Zihuatanejo is an 8 hour bus ride or 1 hour flight from Mexico City. I stayed at CASA DE LA COSTA whose owner, Pam Carlson, is a United States Mexicana...

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07/06/2024

Went to a great beach front in Zihuatanejo that I had never been to and stayed at a great place....first check out the area...TRONCONES

Only 20 miles north of the Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo airport is the small little beach town of Troncones. Enjoy this video as we explore Troncones, neighboring are...

21/05/2024

Delicious Popeye Omelette with Spinach and cheese. In the package a small plate of fruit, coffee and delicate handmade tortillas, a delight for the rustic inclined.
Great price-quality ratio

17/05/2024

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The first Mexican taco stand ever to get a Michelin star from the French dining guide is Mexico City's tiny, 10-foot by 10-foot, Tacos El Califa de León.

30/04/2024

Twilight time with delicious weather in historic center of Querétaro

30/04/2024

At the Gazebo, in the central square of Querétaro, an orchestra was playing famous children’s songs from days gone by

30/04/2024

Amazing churches: the Cathedral and interior of Church of St Clair

30/04/2024

Gorgeous Sunday in quaint and colonial Querétaro

24/04/2024

The Huichol indigenous community and their amazing art.

24/04/2024

Legend of the two volcanoes: Popocatépetl (the smoking mountain) and the Iztlazihuatl (the sleeping woman).
They can be seen en route to charming Puebla.

24/04/2024

Lovely Mexican Mona Lisa