Tag: Colonial Zone
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December 5, 2023 – Mexico City
Breakfast for the foodies: cibeles. See blurry photo of menu for ingredients. Came with a small, almost biscuit size piece of bread which was good for cleaning up all the salsa. Visited the Museo Mural Diego Rivera this morning. The place has a 15×47 foot mural the great Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera, painted in 1947.…
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December 4, 2023 – Mexico City
Late start this morning. Breakfast was Huevos Rancheros at a little restaurant nearby. It was fried eggs, chorizo sausage and salsa over two corn tortillas. Spicy and tasty. Have a good day. Templo Mayor is the remains of the main Aztec temple of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec city Cortez came upon in 1519 and conquered in…
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March 3, 2023 – Santo Domingo, DR
Took a minibus back to Samana then caught a guagua to Santo Domingo. A guagua is a bus about half the size of a regular bus, like the one in the photo. I’m staying in a little hotel near Parque Colon in the Zona Colonial. I return home tomorrow so this will be my last…
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February 24, 2023 – Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
This morning visited a few small museums in the Zona Colonial. One had documents Columbus wrote. I was amazed to be looking at something he wrote. Those papers are about 500 years old. Museo de la Familia Dominicana This museum displayed household items from the wealthy Spanish colonists, the elite of the time. Had dinner…
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February 23, 2023 – Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Today, I covered more ground in the Zona Colonial. Walked part of the oldest paved street in the “New” World, Calle de Las Damas. Along it the likes of Columbus, Columbus’ son Diego, Cortez, Pizzaro, Bartholomew de las Casas, Desoto, Ponce de Leon and other notable Spaniards lived in the 1500s and later. Just an…
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February 22, 2023 – Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Arrived at my Airbnb about 3 PM today. Staying in the Colonial Zone, or Zona Colonial as it’s properly known. Did the self check in thing and headed out for a walk suggested by my Lonely Planet book. Here are some photos from the approximately two hour walk. I’ll post more when I have better…
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