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Plaza de las Tres Culturas

  • May 20, 2006
  • Rated 4 of 5 by JesusW from Mexico city, Mexico
Plaza de las Tres Culturas

This plaza is special because in the same view you get three different cultures: Aztec, Spanish, and Mexican.
Yes, there is a difference between Mexican and Spanish, the Mexican culture is a blend of the Mesoamerican people with all the Spanish word. There are things unique to Mexican culture that has not been reproduced in other conquered countries in Latin America or the Caribbean.

In Plaza de las tres culturas you find the encounter of these differences with the Aztec ruins of Tlatelolco, the Spanish temple, and the Mexican modern (1970s) buildings, and concepts.

From journal Mexico City, This Small Little Town

Plaza de las Tres Culturas

  • November 2, 2002
  • Rated 4 of 5 by fluppe from Roeselare, Belgium
Plaza de las Tres Culturas

This Plaza symbolizes the 3 different Cultures of Mexico: Pre-Columbian Culture, Spanish Culture and the Modern Culture. On this picture you can see two of these cultures, an Aztec symbol, ruins of ancient pyramids of Tlatelolco, the twin city of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, and in the background the modern buildings. The second Culture at the plaza de las tres Culturas : The Spanish built here their own temple, the Santiago Church. This church is built in the 16th century, in that time churches were built in a kind of style as they build fortresses. The third Culture at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas is the Modern Culture. This is symbolized by a big almost completely empty square surrounded by modern buildings. There is a statue which remembers the bloodbath that happened here in October 1968, when the military opened fire at a group of demonstrating students, more then hundred students died, this must be surely be one of the darkest pages in the Mexican history . . .

From journal Start of the Ruta Maya

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