Guanajuato
This ornate theater was almost 100 years in its construction. The steps and portico serve as a community
gathering space and impromtu performance space for jugglers, singers, and musicians.
If you look carefully you will that one of the statues on top representing the arts looks very much like
our Statue of Liberty.
Here is the traditional view:
And the artsy fartsy view:
Buses with big comfy seats, HD TV and Movies, internet and free snacks. Oh did I mention the clean antimassacars placed on each seat before each trip. This is the way to travel, for a little more than half of what the same distance would cost at home, on a much less classy ride.
Took a break from watching The Darkest Hour - a stupid guy movie about aliens in Moscow. Not a great story, but the dialogue was so simple I could understand most of it in Spanish.. And when the bang bang
shoot em up got too boring, there were high desert scenes like this
Carved deep out of a mountain valley, one enters and leaves the city by tunnels.
Taken from one of the roof decks at La Meson de las Poetas.
The University of Guanajuato now serves over 30,000 students in several campuses across the state. But the original campus here in Guanajuato started as a Jesuit school. According to our guide, the intention was to create a school that would be a hive of learning, which is reflected in the architecture and the bumblebees on the seal. The latin inscription means: the truth will set you free. There is an irreverant ditty in there somewhere. Perhaps I will figure it out before the Pope visits here in March 2012.
Here in San Miguel it is not unusual to see a woman in brightly colored indigenous dress hawking hand made dolls, while talking on her cell phone. In the Hidalgo Market in Guanajuato, I found this somewhat less discordant, but equally interesting contrast-traditional hand made bags and baskets in a stall with a vendor more interested in his cyber electric guitar lessons than selling.
