WomanOnHerBike: October 2023

Monday, October 30, 2023

Not sanitized inside though

The fungus attacked corn they eat here

Inside Saint Joseph and sacred heart of Mary basilica

Apparently one of the few colonial era churches. Lots of quake damage in this C18th church. Remarkable what's left

Enroute to the San Juan market

Major earthquake damage from 2017

Monday in Chinatown

Steamed buns like I've never dreamed of.

Dessert at an upscale place off the Zocalo

It's sweet corn pudding with rum flavored egg nog sauce, vanilla ice cream and fruit. Called Pay de elote. Could only manage half of it, but I had to try it.

The parade route for next weekend

The parade is postponed a week because Mexico City is hosting a Formula One event

Sunday night rocking the plaza

Catrinas and inflatable oversized pencils are popular

Watched a dozen soldiers march out to fuel the big flag at 6pm

In the Zocalo, the erection of a bandit skeleton centaur continues

Cornerstone of the museum of Mexico City

Aztec serpent repurposed. It's close to the Church of the Immaculate Conception and Jesus the Nazarene, another worn and dark cathedral but this one has the tomb of Hernando Cortes in a wall off the altar. One dark and mysterious ceiling mural remains at an entrance but nearly everything is white plaster, with a few cenotaphs of C19th notable citizens. I presume the revolutionary war caused a lot of destruction of old orders in New Spain.

The postal palace

A Moroccan fantasy where once you mailed stuff. 1920s?

Jamming it in

San Francisco’s Baroque facade entrance

The church is sinking so the entrance is actually a side chapel.

Inside the ex convent of San Francisco

Definitely accepting the reality of contemporary Mexico.

Cheesecake

Atrio de San Francisco current art show

1950s schlock poetry or song paired with imaginary buffed out pre-Columbians by contemporary artists.

Tile house from park across the street

The Sanborn’s restaurant

Casa de Azulejos terrace and balcony restaurant

House of tiles

Now a Sanborn's with remarkable ramv restaurant space inside.

Cafe lo Blanco

Excellent cafe leche and a passable enchilada for lunch

Typical Day of Dead and Christmas decorations store

In the general Merced market area

Absolutely no idea what the building’s name is

So many tattered historic buildings in the Centro.

An altar I found by accident

Instead a building owned by the Ministry of Finance which offers classes. Ice opportunity to chat with the bilingual guide.

La Santisima

The derelict mess of the church of the holy trinity, sinking into the soft surface of Mexico City. Once a hospital and convent, another casualty of time and priorities. Nearby is the Merced Market, a stinky slum of warren like shops, sewer gas and every day life.

Originally founded 1711, and made into an Orthodox Church in the 1950s

Back into the church

Sunday mass at Templio di Porta Coeli

I checked into a church near the Palacio Nacional, where I found the congregation to be all concheros in costume, plenty of incense and Byzantine like mosaics of Mary, along with 2 black Christs, including the one that was hanging in the metropolitan cathedral until ? And now replaced with a black and white paper cutout. So Christ of the poison is back in the church it came from. Everyone including the priest was indigenous, and I stuck around for the short process of the priest and chalice, into the street then back inside, accompanied by concheros playing their guitars decorated with armadillo skins. I suspect I'm seeing here, in real time, the continued integration of Christianity with Aztec paganism.

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