For Photo Walk Nº104, we explored the area around the Alameda Park which was the first urban park in the Americas and originally the site of a large Aztec market. Some of the places around here were badly damaged during the 1985 earthquake, being totally rebuilt, while we saw the effects of the more recent Sep 2017 earthquake in the churches.We met at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, located at one end of the park, and photographed both the outside of the building and the interior before making our way into the park, renovated in 2012 and full of jacaranda trees and fountains. The mounted police have returned to the park in recent months and not only allowed us to take photos but encouraged some of us to get up on the horses. We also visited different places including the Plaza Juárez with its fountain made up of 1034 red pyramids overlooked by the Museo de Memoria y Tolerancia and some other modern buildings.We then went up to the Don Porfirio Café to have some refreshment and take photos of the Palacio de Bellas Artes from an elevated position.Although we had originally planned to go to the Zócalo as well to get some photos of the colourful umbrellas there, we discovered they had been removed so we were able to spend more time exploring this part of the Centro Histórico.
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