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Falling in love with Mexico !VIVA MEXICO!

Falling in love with Mexico !VIVA MEXICO!. Estados Unidos Mexicanos. The distance between my birthplace Mlawa, Poland and Cholula, Mexico, where we live now is 13 750 km or 8 544 miles as the crow flies. The Mexican flag in the background of the Angel of the Independence column in Mexico City.

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Falling in love with Mexico !VIVA MEXICO!

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  1. Falling in love with Mexico!VIVA MEXICO! Estados Unidos Mexicanos

  2. The distance between my birthplace Mlawa, Poland and Cholula, Mexico, where we live now is 13 750 km or8 544 miles as the crow flies.

  3. The Mexican flag in the background of the Angel of the Independence column in Mexico City.

  4. There are two possibilities that allow one to fall in love with Mexico: either you have to be very tolerant or you are forced to live there because you have no other choice.Joanna Kozinska Frybes, Polish Ambassador to Mexico 1997 Charros

  5. Stereotypes Mexico to many foreigners and tourists means big sombreros, Indians riding donkeys, mariachi music and human sacrifices on top of pyramids practiced centuries ago. The Great Pyramid of Cholula The biggest in the world

  6. Morenos Today those stereotypes also include the notion that Mexicans are drug traffickers and criminals. People of brown skin – Morenos are portrayed as lazy, drinking tequila and sleeping under a cactus.

  7. A joke from an American school:“How did you come to Texas, on a donkey?”

  8. Tequila is en vogue in the world and expensive

  9. Human sacrifices among the Aztecs in Tenochtitlan 20 000 people were sacrificed by the Aztecs annually. Motives: blood and a heart considered centers of courage; to annihilate prisoners of war, spread fear among the enemies and vassals.

  10. The Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan (25 miles from Mexico City) – the Totonaca state, and then Aztec occupied from 200 BC to 800 AD. 260 steps lead to the top of the temple for human sacrifices. The interior is made of solid stone blocks. It is the third greatest pyramid in the world after the Great Pyramid of Cholula, Puebla, Mexico and the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt.

  11. Teotihuacan – the City of Gods

  12. Wealth of landscapes In Mexico you can find volcanoes, deserts, virgin beaches, indigenous villages, but also colonial towns in the shade of pyramids. Hernan Cortes, 1519, asked to describe the newly conquered land simply crumbled a sheet of blank paper and put it on a table.

  13. Colonial Taxco The silver capital of Mexico

  14. The interior patio in a house in Queretaro

  15. Inspiration for artists Mexican pueblo

  16. Exotic, Mysterious, Unknown The expression “I’m a Mexican” not always has the same meaning. If you try to look for a “true Mexico”, you’ll never find it.

  17. A girlfriend and a boyfriend - Novios

  18. The Mexican United States • 31 states + the Federal District • Area: 1,958,200 sq km or 756,065 sq miles • Population 106 million • Capital city Mexico, population 20 million – the biggest city in the world • 90% catholic • Patron Saint Our Lady of Guadalupe since 1531 • St. Prisca Cathedral in Taxco

  19. Virgin of Guadalupe Patron Saint of both AmericasReyna de Mexico – the Queen of Mexico

  20. La Morenita • Appeared to Indian Juan Diego on the hill of Tepeyac in Mexico City in 1531. • John Paul II, the Polish Pope elevated Juan Diego to sainthood during his last trip to Mexico in 2002. • Juan Diego is the first Indian saint on the American continent.

  21. Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, the old one and the new one as seen from the hill of Tepeyac.

  22. The old basilica 1561 The new basilica 1987

  23. The state of Puebla

  24. It’s said that there are 365 churches in Cholula (population 150 thousand). Some sources list 300 or 165.Tonantzintla Acatepec

  25. The church of Tonantzintla in the Mexican baroque style

  26. The Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de los Remedios (Church of Our Lady of the Remedies) from 1594 on top of the Great Pyramid of Cholula dedicated to the deity Quetzalcoatl

  27. The Franciscan Convent of St. Gabriel – a church and a fortress from 1529 built on the ruins of the Quetzalcoatl shrine in Cholula.

  28. St. Gabriel Convent, a view from the top of the Great Pyramid.

  29. La Capilla Real (The Royal Chapel) from 1549 adjacent to the convent, built to celebrate mass for the Indians.

  30. Altars in farmers’ homes Saint Mary and next to Her witches’ memorabilia: herbs, seeds, amulets and pictures.

  31. At the Great Pyramid of Cholula, waiting in line to see a bruja – a witch doctor who cures body and soul on the day of the Spring equinox – witchcraft and the catholic beliefs coexist side by side.

  32. Catemaco in the state of Veracruz is a capital of shamans and witches.

  33. Expressing pride in the Indian traditionsat the Great Pyramid of CholulaThe ritual for Quetzalcoatl and the Aztec King

  34. Mexican historians struggle with the interpretation of the origins of their country and national identity. Hernan Cortes, the Spanish conquistador 1519 and his Indian interpreter and lover Malinche are symbolically recognized as the mother and father of all Mexicans, but the attitude to them is ambiguous. Jose H. Helguera Clemente Orozco

  35. Population today • 60% Mestizos • 30% Indians belonging to over 50 tribes, each with a separate language, culture and traditions • 10% white, often the most privileged, richer and holding positions of power

  36. Felipe Calderonelected President of Mexico in 2006 for a six year term

  37. Children from San Agustin CalvarioMari Cruz, Lalo and Miriam

  38. Boys from the primary school in San Luis Tehuiloyocan, San Andres Cholula

  39. Graduation ceremony at a primary school in San Luis Tehuiloyocan

  40. Indigenous children from Chiapas

  41. Wanda and Garret, Padrinos (Godparents) of Lupita and Veronica

  42. Cholula means churches and volcanoes We live 28 miles from the active volcano Popocatepetl.

  43. Watching the sunset

  44. Popocatepetl Iztacchihuatl • Popocatepetl in Nahuatl, the Smoking Mountain. One of the most dangerous in the world. • 17,887 ft high, linked to Iztacchihuatl, the Sleeping Woman. • Its crater has a diameter of 1,968 ft. • It has became more active since 1994.

  45. Garret on his way to Popo

  46. Popo eruption on December 18, 2000

  47. Iztacchihuatl, the Sleeping Woman. Climbers follow a route leading to the highest point, “her breast” at 17,342 ft above the sea level.

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