THE DISTRICT OF BOHEMIA IN THE HISTORIC CENTRE OF THE CITY OF MEXICO
El Barrio de San Miguel Archangel
The bohemia of the ancient city of Mexico.
By Jesus Rodriguez Petlacalco
Cities grow and become, nothing like Mexico City that until more than 80 years not defined its limits very close to what is now only its center. One of those limits, was the district of St. Michael the Archangel, whose location has now been relegated to an underground station: Pino Suárez.
sheltered by a monumental temple, which dates back to the sixteenth century, San Miguel prides itself for centuries to have one of the largest parishes in the city: the second after the Metropolitan Tabernacle. A cozy place with source addresses this beautiful monument of an eighteenth-century environment in which drew the bohemian life of Mexico for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The neighborhood of half-lit streets succumbed to the reinvention of the city-progress. Things happened that night, sleepless and revelers were dissolved when these streets were torn mercilessly and widened to become the current November 20th Avenue.
As good nocturnal animals such recesses fled suburban character that inspired the genius of composers such as Agustín Lara that fueled its five black notes of St. Jerome and Politeama near water diving. Also gone is the rumba that illustrated "Everyone your life" by Luis G. Basurto; went out "the candles of Santa" slum suburb who attended the Felix Lara and longed that big city.
On the streets of San Miguel had fun with contemporaries Rivas Mercado and delivered the modern theater in Mexico, there Nahui Ollin exhibited his first nudes. It is without doubt a musical neighborhood in the recent past where life is lived and danced to the rhythm of the danzoneras of Smyrna, or national rocked to the tune of Lerdo de Tejada and his orchestra or Barclay Lorenzo and Maria Elena. Today
still live music stores Bolivar and Inns, the imposing former convent and church of Regina Coheli, the old Theatre Regina the former Convent of St. Jerome, of our Sister Juana, now home to college culinary education in Mexico, the monumental Colegio de San Ignacio de Loyola Vizcaínas, the famous pulquería laughter, bars, trendy restaurants, galleries, grocery stores , taquerias, bolerías and neighborhoods that remind us that nature is undoubtedly an area with bohemian troubadour.
To enjoy this exclusive district, MEXICO HERITAGE PROJECT will hold its San Miguel Archangel illustrated talk, the bohemian neighborhood of the ancient city of Mexico with Jesus Rodriguez Petlacalco on Sunday 06 June of this in the Old Palace School Medicine (Brazil 33, Center).
The route additional steps of la vie boheme at the Centre, will be held on Sunday 13 June at 10:00. Venue: St. Michael the Archangel Parish (Jose Maria Pino Suarez Avenue corner Jose Maria Pino Suarez M Izazaga.) At a cost of $ 100.00 per person.
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