Visiting Mexico City’s Z calo and Metropolitan Cathedral

0atwong • 18th Mar 2006 • Food, Friends, Travel

So Timothy decided to take me out to see some of the sites around town. We decied to go the the heart of Mexico City, the Z calo and Metropolitan Cathedral. He took me to a resturant where we can see the entire square (there’s this huge mexico flag in the courtyard… awesome) and just gawk at people. Very cool.

Mexico City.- Downtown area
Megalopolis such as Mexico City are formed by the gradual fusion of several cities and towns. The roots of Mexico’s capital lie in the so-called Historic Center, an area which occupies the original core of the city which the Aztecs set out like a celestial map, aligned according to the four cardinal points. The Spanish then retraced the area in a checker board pattern, and it was subsequently rebuilt as a convent-filled, aristocratic metropolis before eventually transforming into a microcosm of modernity.

Pictures!