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Tantalizing Tlaquepaque
There are countless galleries and artisans’ workshops here. I’ve been traveling around Mexico since the mid-’70’s, when the local arts and crafts market was a lot like shopping in the former Soviet...
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Hacienda style
Gardens, Museo Ex-Hacienda San Gabriel Barrera, Guanajuato, Mexico Guanajuato is one of Mexico’s five colonial “silver cities.” Silver was discovered here in the 1600’s, and within a century...
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Guanajuato’s Centro Historico
The first sight of Guanajuato is breathtakingly beautiful. Thousands of brightly colored buildings are draped across the hills like a mosaic carpet, and the colors are warm in the morning sunlight....
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Rivera’s roots
Bronze of Diego, Casa Diego Rivera, Guanajuato Diego Rivera was a prominent Mexican painter whose large scale wall frescos dealt mostly with social and political themes arising from Mexico’s 1910...
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Dolores Hidalgo’s many faces
Zócalo, Dolores Hidalgo What has to be the largest Mexican flag in all of Mexico waves over Dolores Hidalgo. It’s visible from the mountain road long before the city appears, and it’s a beacon which...
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Making tequila
7 Leguas tequila distillery, Atontonillco El Alto, Jalisco, Mexico The Siete Leguas tequila distillery is located in Atotonilco El Alto, about two hours’ drive east of Guadalajara, and this...
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Anticipating Ajijic’s fiesta patronal
Ticket booth, Calla Colón, Ajijic, Jalisco The Jesuits who arrived on the heels of the Spanish conquistadors in the 1500’s assigned a Catholic patron saint to each Mexican village. In many towns, the...
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Altared states
In Mexico, altars are not found just in churches. Makeshift and highly original altars appear on highways throughout Mexico as poignant reminders of traffic fatalities, and they’re a signature facet...
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Guadalajara’s Parque Revolución
Mural on a Pemex station wall, adjacent to Guadalajara’s Parque Revolución For those who have sated themselves on Guadalajara’s high profile tourist attractions, the neighborhoods of the city’s midtown...
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Guadalajara’s blue collar Midtown
More mural art. What I refer to as “Midtown Guadalajara” runs east from Chalpultepec to 8 De Julio, and south from Calle Independencia to Libertad (map last below). Older buildings like...
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