Mexico City's Centro Histórico is full of interesting streets, museums and everyday life. For this week's walk, we explored the different buildings around Plaza de Santo Domingo and then made our way down Calle Donceles to Plaza Garibaldi. There was no end of scenes to photograph and new places to discover.We met in the centre of Plaza de Santo Domingo by the fountain with the statue of La Corregidora, a lady who played an important role in Mexican Independence. Our first stop was the old colonial SEP building (Secretaria de Educación Pública) where there are a series of 235 murals painted on the walls, mainly Diego Rivera's early works, done between 1923 and 1928. On the other side of the square is the Portal de Evangelistas where, in the past, scribes used to sit and write letters for people. Today they still do this using ancient manual or electric typewriters and there are numerous stands with small hand-operated printing presses ready to churn out personalized invitations to events etc. This area is also notorious for being the place to go to for those wanting to get documents forged or to get fake degrees!Leaving Plaza de Santo Domingo behind us, with a coffee in hand, we made our way to Calle Donceles, along streets lined with shops selling wedding and "quinceañeros" dresses and stopped off to see the Archivo Histórico de DF where they usually have the original Angel de la Independencia's head on display. It toppled down in the 1985 earthquake and was damaged. Unfortunately, it is currently on show in an exhibition somewhere else so we were unable to see it (photo from an earlier walk).
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