I walked through the streets of downtown
city
then it was not yet the center
historical was simply and simply the
center of my grandfather’s hand that I
spoke of the city that was below and
where the palace of the
emperor moctezuma who ruled that
the titans upon arrival of the
where Spanish was the largest temple
and if place that impressed so much and without
cuts that compared it to the tower
Mayor of Seville Cathedral
highest choice in the world in its
where was the calmecac in the
school of the indigenous nobles he are
for whom then I was
imagining that city was below
because it does not end in its fullness alleges
the Spaniards give him manuel gamio
considered the father of anthropology
Mexican archeology says in 1914
being a young archaeologist they were made
some excavations madrid is the mole a
house in what now the corner of
argentina just saw and the
vestigios called this young man
archaeologist had already studied a lot
the Spanish shops nor the codices
the cars that traveled with the temple
major and the studies that you found
among all a big snake head
they said he knows that was the temple
greater because until that moment look
I thought it was under the cathedral
because he’s always used to being
build the main church on
the most important pyramid to replace
the Catholic cult I do not see to replace
pagan set the pagan
but in this case it was so huge the
Temple greater than expected so long
destroy it for enough to
build on the cathedral that for its
dislike aside from 12 thousand
814 thanks to manuel gamio it was learned that
there was the main temple remained
many years we arrived with a small
site museum until it escaped
still the eighties when
the date appears
you will remember on the other hand my father
who was a social chronicler
the newspaper excélsior told me about
the
for that they were upstairs he was talking to me
example look at that baroque palace
wonderful
there marquise and snowy jungle lived
since it is said that he already had some loves
secrets with the count of halle berry
lived in that palace in a system that
already charged you have them or yes because the
night it is said that the dawn is
they outlined their cloak was about
especially to the jail to marquez to
then and today between these two cities
must of fantasy and then you have
have to study high school in the
San Ildefonso School
there are in those streets tunisia first not
visited centers images of what
brand one is true
well later years at the end of
the 80s and early 90s
I had the fortune to work the council
the historical center that was
in a beautiful palace the father the
conde de heras and soto a baroque palace
same is in the street of donceles
but at that time the center
American was full of
traveling very deteriorated
it was a time when jacobo zabludovsky
who know their zenith as a reporter of
televisa was interviewed Mary
Felix and asked the center and
they know that the beloved and Maria Felix
he said that today he does not pay me a joke is a
cochinero smells like piss good was the
news of the week all time and it was
somehow the detonator so that
the first big rescue of the
historic center was regent of the
city manuel camacho who wanted to be
President
then there is a great opportunity
he did not start taking the center because
among other things they made places for
relocate street vendors to remove them from
the streets after the
decree of rent freeze one
madness had been established by the
World War II a decree of
emergency that prohibits accessibility in
the sales of the houses and charo did was
causing a great deterioration and all the
mansions of the center because the people who
rent their houses out by not receiving
pay the water truth and rent 2 pesos
that decree was eliminated and a
trust that give a series of
tax incentives for people
that restores Basque the center had
exemption from property tax
to technical advice many many
benefits that led to that much
people are encouraged to their homes and they
they created those street market places
you start a relationship the houses the
streets the street furniture for its
platform tried incredible I had
houses and streets especially saw
walking around Rome but people do not go
to deny center will be different is not a
cochinero when he worked in medium and
poor of you there is a way they were already going
then the mission by the fans
exhibited the chronicles that for two
years
whenever one plus one and from there I
I went to the day today or 25 years
to this day writing all
on chronic Sundays in which
He talked about the whole story
from the city of their buildings their
squares their palaces characters
gastronomy and good is not allowed
get into what the story of this
city and know its origin in depth
today to this city has a more origin
fascinating of the world because you have
is that I do not want us to go back
700 years when the last tribe arrives
from which will arrive from the north to people
this wonderful clinic that was what
more fertile
this automatic train arrive the seventh
they are Mexicas or Aztecs and it is populated
all the surroundings of the lakes is
when the two castles arrive like the
half wild upstarts will be a
little to say but good this and
then they finally give you some islets
there in the middle of the lakes thinking about if
they are going to eat the vipers and the vermin
What they did not count on is that they
they ate the vipers to the vermin and
they managed to make an empire in 200 years
very powerful that he came to dominate
Places as far away as local
Central if I told anything else
to make an idea there is preserved
day within codices
he kept that famous tribute book
where all the
tributes that pay them for that we know
Place it at all poles
places so far away from the street to dominate
you know that your lyrics were like
primorous pinturitas then in this
tribute book
you can see for example everything
that they were sent from the southeast
then you for example feathers
very beautiful birds are for the
Tufts gold pieces of jade
supposed cocoa more from the center of the country
they sent corn bean cotton blankets
well it was an empire that was if you can
compare with the Roman and of course
that power had to be reflected in
Our city
so in 200 years it continues to raise a
city truly impressed the
Spanish people
in fact we know it in detail by the
descriptions of themselves by
example among others that polite you
makes the king of Spain his layers of
relationship
what is this imagine this in 35
different sides tones are
they built palaces and pyramids
impressive all painted colors
decorated with prodigious sculptures
many of which we can see
currently in the anthropology museum
the major temple museum crossed by
channels and ditches by the furrow
hundreds of canoe with the goods
most unimaginable
in fact with cuts came soldiers who
the cities had been
important in the world in his time as
roma like constantinopla and they said that
They had never seen a city if
fact they compared it with the cities of
fantasy that they described in the stories
of amadís de gaula
for that reason when finally polite
manages to conquer the city after
a terrible 75-day site
imagine that the mexicas resisted
with a heroic truth value
I do not know why it does not arise more in
history and we know and that is what
they suffered the indigenous children
for your own chronicles and you
surely you have read a lot
because he translated them into lion porthole and
it is known as the vision of
defeated that tell how they will end
eating sandwiches the walls worms
resisting
I left it city finally they were
defeated and cuts decides to lift the
Spanish city in the same place where
was mexico tenochtitlan against
the opinion of many of its capitals
whether or not this is crazy
it is in the water
we are going to seven crazy people do not support because
he knew that this place was the symbol
of an enormous religious political power and
economic and he had to take advantage
that to replace those power with the
Spanish powers that was there
above and so begins to rise
Spanish city psc with the stones of
the palaces of the indigenous temples and
with hands the losers are going to
raise the Spanish city
The city is going to rebuild many
times because he suffers floods
tremors and because of fashion I always like
be fashionable in the 17th century 18
basically built mud
their heavens are they know it well not like that
all full of elements home and thrashed
very ornate province a very thing
important
architecture is the reflection of the
mentality of the values of an era
and one more because if you think about
the baroque era for example you think
in baroque literature in a poem by
Sor Juana is like a baroque altar full
of figures of elements does not imply
read the same rock music that they
Grant to forge Mexican food
think about a mole some have
32 salty ingredients very bitter
baroque but then they come to
govern Spain the Bourbons has another
nationalist mentality and that mentality
is going to express itself in the neoclassical
start large palace built
neoclassical attend medium Greek very
sober but I’m fine independence
we do not want to know anything about their styles
that he remembers in Spain and then we see
to France and I was beginning to do
French houses with houses
apple hear those tile roofs
inclined to drain the snow so
necessary in the city of mexico
they prefer the revolution
another mindset change of 40
insurgents and nationalist cleto that
seeks to recover pride by the root
prehispanic by indigenous is going to
emerge neocolonial functionalism the
pop art and the famous Mexican mural
which is the exaltation of all that past
when you go to study that city
You do not realize you have a force
that builds us defines us
we have that city in that
Local recipe wine was lovely and city
travel with me
we are marked by this
city is very important to assume it because
apart it’s a privilege because that
origin the strength that this city has
that are here really the meeting of
two cultures
but no no no, nothing better in the center
historical
when one goes around the
city here water capos algamis pack 1
to find there the importance of
the cities of the pre- Hispanic era
very important destinations were villas
already during the viceroyalty and now they are
procedural delegations to the place that they go
to see how they have preserved
traditions and customs are many
from the prehispanic good time in the
southeast
this wonderful china happened in fact is
an ecological prodigy of humanity
that has been declared patrimony of the
humanity because this city like little
still does not define the place or cezanne or not
you know or unconsciously you are in
this exam as he spoke with andres a
partner who are in usa
and canada mexico and it’s really that in
get to your city
In New York said people
be this is a chilango 2008 and that
those means embarrassing chicago no or if
is a gentile to be assumed say
no , we are not going to call him and what good and what
worse is that they assume this city they say
penetrated into his past that the tape in his
since the oil to be called
city because this and when he does not understand
and accept this wonderful origin that
bring one in this city
a few days was set in a very site
clear identity a pride and sense
of belonging and that is very important
for the human being
proud the place where to me that
love the workers who are here
they always talk about their people who have 40
years in mexico there is that I am from
zacatlan there my town is prettier
well we do not have this
city reform
then I want to summon them from
true to think about the fields of
this city
we enjoy it fascinating
we are very proud of that origin that
and we always have good my
last book I titled it the city that
my habitat because so sorry if
please, I call you to open the
eyes
let’s open the mind open the heart
These are our true riches
[Applause]
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