GRUPO CLEC

The National Institute of Fine Arts

Assisting to Palace of Fine Arts, allows us to go back to the days when this place echoed sentences from the nuns of the Convent of Santa Isabel to the nineteenth century banished to fulfill the mission of living and making mundane clothing. But that was not enough, as the beneficiary of bourgeois life porfiriana Peace needed for new spaces for entertaining. That is why it plans a new National Theater, located in front of the Mall, would contemporary flair to this city of palaces. The revolutionary impetus to condition that project resumed with the times, opening with interior geometry 1934. In becoming the headquarters of the National Institute of Fine Arts, extends and resumes its original functions as cultural and social center of great importance.

In this place the studentes of CLEC make some interviews. The interviews are present below:


Student: hi!! Can you help me? please.
Foreign: Ok, What do you need?
Student: I need make you a interview
Foreign: ohhh OK It isn't a problem
Student: well, What is your name?
Foreign: My name is Maximilian
Student: Where are you from?
Foreign: From Argentin
Student: oohh thats really good. What is the reason do you visit the National Institute of Fine Arts?
Foreign: Because, i want to see the exhibiton and I really love the arts.
Student: Yes, that is really beautiful.What is your favorite food??
Foreign: I love the tacos, pozole and the mole.
Student: you can tell me some words for decribe Mexico please
Foreign: BEAUTIFUL, DIFERENT, GENIAL, MMM I CONSIDERED MEXICO LIKE MY SECOND HOUSE
Student: than you so much, it's really nice that you feel like that
Foreign: See you, have a nice day


INTERVIEW

Historical Centre

The Historical Centre is the oldest part of Mexico City and it’s also the area that contains some of the most appreciated cultural treasures of the country. The Centre, as the inhabitants of the city call it, is an area of streets which invites us to travel to the past and remember its times of splendor, times in which viceroys and high-ranking officials traveled upon horse-drawn carriages, whilst merchants, friars and nuns, craftsmen and other characters walked through the famous and beautiful streets of the “City of Palaces”.

In the Historical Centre of Mexico City you can find true architectural treasures like the Metropolitan Cathedral; built over three centuries, it comprises different styles of the viceroyship. Just a few steps away from the Cathedral, you can find the National Palace, seat of the Mexican Executive Power, and the City Hall, both of them in front of the city’s Zócalo (public square) or Square of the Constitution (second largest in the world after Moscow’s Red Square).

The Independence Angel

("The Angel of Independence"), most commonly known by the shortened name El Ángel and officially known as Columna de la Independencia, is a victory column located on a roundabout over Paseo de la Reforma in downtown Mexico City.
El Ángel was built to commemorate the centennial of the beginning of Mexico's War of Independence, celebrated in 1910. In later years it was made into a mausoleum for the most important heroes of that war. It is one of the most recognizable landmarks in Mexico City, and it has become a focal point for both celebration or protest. It bears a resemblance to the Victory Column in Berlin.

Visitors are allowed to enter the monument, view the memorial plaques at the base level, and climb to the top of the tower. Entrance is free. Visitors sign in and temporarily surrender their photo identification for a colored tag on a lanyard. Groups of about 12 are then allowed into the monument for about 15 minutes. There are more than 200 stairs, and the climb is ardurous. The first approximately 15 stairs, in the base, are wide and comfortable. The stairs in the column itself, approximately 185, are circular, metal, very narrow and without a landing or resting point until one reaches the top. Visitors who are not in good physical shape will find the climb exhausting -- it is the equivalent of climbing a 12 story building in one go, and those not comfortable with tight spaces should avoid the climb as there is insufficient room to allow others to bypass. Some areas of the staircase are very dark, and there are only a few slits to let in light. The top balcony, though narrow, offers a commanding view of the wide avenues that surround the column. The return trip down is by way of the same circular staircase




Part one of the interview:





Second part of the interview:

The National Museum of Anthropology

The National Museum of Anthropology located in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, the museum contains significant archaeological and anthropological artifacts from the pre-Columbian heritage of Mexico, such as the Piedra del Sol (the Aztec calendar stone) and the 16th-century Aztec statue of Xochipilli.


Interview:

Coyoacan

Coyoacan is one of the areas of the city in which the colonial legacy can really be appreciated; some decades ago it used to be located on the outskirts of the city and it is now located entirely in it, but it still conserves its traditional Mexican character, which in addition to its beautiful plazas, streets and houses, has attracted a great number of artists, and has given it a pleasant intellectual atmosphere.

Coyoacan has its origins in the prehispanic era in which it constituted a population located south of one of the lakes which in that era covered great part of the Valley of México, but it obtained more importance a little after the fall of Tenochtitlán, because as this area was reconstructed to make place for what is known today as the Historical Centre, the capital of the New Spain was established in Coyoacan. With the passing years, Coyoacan became a weekend getaway for the richest families of the time, and it wasn’t until well into the 20th Century when Coyoacan left its agricultural calling as it was totally swallowed up by the city, becoming one of the most typical neighborhoods in México.

Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan, which in Nahuatl means "City of the Gods" or "The place where gods are made" is one of the most impressive of Mexico and the world, being the place where the spiritual and material Mesoamerican peoples, generated the highest expression of architecture, urban planning and art of the Americas.

Teotihuacan's history began around 600 BC, when some of the small farming villages of the Valley of Mexico began to specialize in the production of various products, which eventually began to share with neighboring peoples and for the year 200 BC these people settled in the area contributing their respective philosophies and knowledge in making jewelry, pottery, tools, etc., generating a great commercial and cultural ferment which over the years, motivate the influence of culture Teotihuacan extended to all corners of Mesoamerica.

Also in this archaeological site is a large number of palaces like Quetzalpapalotl and several well-preserved murals, as recounted in a very refined and beautiful way of seeing the world of this culture, it disappeared mysteriously, apparently by a series of climatic and social factors that caused his fall to the eighth century AD