Opening Slide Show: 31 / Mexico City: 7


Location and source: México, D.F. WTL image archives.
Images: Side of the (Catholic) Catedral Metropolitana with pre-1985 buildings surrounding it; artists superimposed drawing of location and architectural design of the Aztec Templo Mayor.
Comments: (A) Urban renewal razing of buildings near the Cathedral caused the discovery of the ruins of the Templo Mayor; (B) the Spanish conquistadores razed the Aztec pyramid and used the stones to build the Cathedral; (C) the location of the Templo Mayor was forgotten (buried?) for four centuries.
Humanities topics: (A) architecture (B) the ghost of the past in the present; (C) syncretism.