CDMX historico, day 8 part 1

[mindstalk]

Day 7 had no part 2.

Got out at 9:45 today. Yeah, yesterday's quiet was a Sunday thing. Everything was open! Not actually true, but felt that way. Even the torta stall I like was active already, unlike other Mercado food places, and I got a torta milanesa carne de res. Also a croissant-shaped thing from the Mercado bakery which is not at all croisssant-like, more of a sweet bread, and I may throw it away.

Walked back to Templo Mayor et al, got croissants from Maison Kayser -- not great, but recognizable as croissants -- noticed that the Plaza de la Constitucion, aka Zocalo, is fenced off. Not that it looks super attractive, just a large expanse of flat concrete. Apparently it's not the Plaza de Armas, but the old center of Tenochtitlan itself. There was a small protest on the south side of the fences, demanding respect for indigenous communities.

Or maybe the Spanish used it as their Plaza de Armas. Still, I remember the Plazas in Chile, which had been turned into parks with greenery, fountains, and seating.

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[anna_wing]

I lived a while in Chile, and I remember those! Every town I visited had a beautiful Plaza de Armas, all different, and full of people doing the paseo in the evenings. The one in Puerto Natales had a little steam locomotive painted in bright colours, and the one in Iquique had rows of vultures that came to roost on the surrounding buildings every evening...