Today was one of our typical days exploring a new city. We had breakfast and then just started walking, stopping in different plazas, grabbing food here and there, and checking out a few of the guidebook sites.
We walked by the Serdán’s house, where the first shots of the Mexican Revolution were fired, and where bullet holes still pock mark the building. After all of our years here in Mexico I find that I know far more about the Mexican Revolution (and also the War of Independence) than I do about any American wars.
This is all you need to see to know this lady can cook.
There is so much color in Mexico—far from the stereotypical dust covered adobe.
The Bibliotecha Palafoxiana is possibly the first public library in the Americas, founded in 1646. Gorgeous, and really cool to see four-hundred-year-old books open and on display.
5 Comments on “A Puebla Walk”
Wow! I could really spend some time in the library. I wonder what the bestsellers were 450 years ago.
Mark and Cindy
So full of color is what I think every time I receive your posts. Absolutely.
Those apple bananas look awesome!!
The photo of the kids in the library reminds me of a Guillermo Del Toro movie…what a story could come out of just that pic. Something like Pan’s Labyrinth?
Puebla looks like a very cool place to explore. You are probably correct about that being the oldest Library in NA. 101 years later in 1747 the first lending library was opened in America in Newport, RI. It is still in operation today. http://redwoodlibrary.org/
Great pictures as usual!
Will Museler