Alfred's Images Mexico

06/19/2016

Mexico City Center

10/31/2015

Cuetzalan small town set high in the hills in the north of the Mexican state of Puebla, the state capital.
The town characterized by slopping steep cobblestone streets, and numerous rustic buildings. The town center is composed largely of handicraft markets as numerous stalls selling every-day necessities, with it’s iconic “Parroquia of San Francisco of Asis”, with its “Escalinatas to the upper Plaza.

10/04/2015

Yecapixtla

Yecapixtla, a town located in the northeast of the state of Morelos. Home of the Monastery of San Juan Bautista, and famously known for its tasty, high-quality beef, “Cecina.” This beef is prepared in large thin sheets of meat, which is cut and quickly grilled.
The Monastery of San Juan Bautista was a teocalli, or sacred precinct, dedicated to a good of commerce called Yacapitzauac. Destroyed when capture and sacked by the Spanish.
The Franciscan were the first to arrive in the 1520’s to evangelize, but the small church was destroyed. The Augustinians took over in the 1530’s and stablished the monastery. Most of the monastery was built between 1535 and 1540.

10/04/2015

Yecapixtla, a town located in the northeast of the state of Morelos. Home of the Monastery of San Juan Bautista, and famously known for its tasty, high-quality beef, “Cecina.” This beef is prepared in large thin sheets of meat, which is cut and quickly grilled.
The Monastery of San Juan Bautista was a teocalli, or sacred precinct, dedicated to a good of commerce called Yacapitzauac. Destroyed when capture and sacked by the Spanish.
The Franciscan were the first to arrive in the 1520’s to evangelize, but the small church was destroyed. The Augustinians took over in the 1530’s and stablished the monastery. Most of the monastery was built between 1535 and 1540.

10/04/2015

Tlamanalco-San Luis Obispo

Tlalmanalco, located in the State of Mexico, in Nahuatl language meaning flat area. The area was one of the last to be conquered by the Aztecs after a 100 years of fighting, the alliance succumbing in 1465. The Spanish founding town occurred in 1525 by Friar Juan de Rivas. The annuals of Chimalpain indicates the indigenous shrine was destroyed in 1525 and a church and an open-air chapel were consecrated in 1532. Tlalmanalco’s native poulation suffered the forced indenture servitude from 1550 to 1633, when the practice was abolished.
The “Temple of San Luis Obispo”, with the adjoining “Capilla Abierta”, were built in the 16th century by the Franciscan as a part of the “Monastery of San Luis”.
Tlalmanalco was one of the first sites to have an “open chapel, and one of the few places one can be found intact today. The Capilla Abierta, made in Mexican Barroque Style is considered one of the most interest exsamples of Tequitqui art, word from the Nahualt meaning vassal, expression used to refer to artistic works, especially sculpture, that had Christian themes but done by indigenous craftsmen.
Tlalmanalco’s best known stone sculpture found in the area is the “Effigy of Xochipilli”, Good of Flower, found on the side of the volcano of Popocatepelt.

09/05/2015

San Bernardino Church in the center of Xochimilco

The formerly independent city of Xochimilco, was established on what was the southern shore of Lake Xochimilco in the pre-Hispanic period. Located south of Mexico City and part of the city. Xochimilco is best known for its canals, which are left from what was an extensive lake and canal system that connected most of the settlements of the Valley of Mexico. These canals, along with artificial islands called chinampas, riding in boats called “trajineras” is its main attraction. There are around the 170 km (110 mi) of canals. This canals and chinampa system, is the vestige of the area’s pre-Hispanic past, has made Xochimilco a World Heritage Site.

09/05/2015

San Andres Mixquic, located Southeast of Mexico City in the borough of Tlahuac, was founded in the 11th century on what was a small Island in Lake Chalmco, later drained in the 19th century. The community is agricultural in nature despite being part of Mexico City. San Andres of Mixtquic is known for its “EL Dia de Los Muertos” celebrations lasting from 31 Octuber to 2 November. In the center of the village is the church and ex-monasterrio of San Andres Apostol, constructed between 1536 and 1563, over the teocalli or Sacrad precinct of Mixquic.

09/05/2015

San Pedro of Atocpan, designated as “Barrio Magico” in 2011, is one of the communities that makes up the borough of Milpa Alta in Mexico City, DF. Known for the preparation of mole sauce, provides almost all of the sauce eaten in Mexico City. Despite of being in DF, is distinctly rural.
The name Atocpan is from the Nahuatl and means “on fertile soil”. It’s located wedged between the Cuauhtzin Volcano and Teutli Mountain.
Modern Mole is derived from a pre-hispanic preparation called “chilmulli” which in Nahuatl means “chili pepper suce”. Almost 92% of the community’s population makes a living related to the preparation and sale of the sauce, most of them small family own factories, having their own well –guarded recipes for the various types of moles.
The town has two main churches: The Parish of San Pedro Apostol, a Franciscan church founded in August 28th, 1680, and the Church of Senor de la Misericordias.

08/23/2015

Tlatelolco is a site of a Pre-columbian city-state and an archaeological excavation site in Mexico City.

It is centered on the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, a square surrounded on three sides by Pre-columian Aztec site, a seventeenth-century church spanish colonial period called the Templo de Santiago, and the modern office complex of the foreign ministry.

The main temple is Tlatelolco, one of the excavated buildings recently saw the discovery of a pyramid inside which is more than 700 years old.

Because it has design features similar to pyramids found in Tenayuca and Tenochtitlan, it may prove to be the first mixed Aztec and Tlatelolca construction found.