Postcards from Mexico

I have received my first mail from Mexico,  registered cover with 13 awesome postcards inside, and with wonderful stamps on cover!

Though progress has arrived, the ancestral traditions and customs refuse to disappear. You can still see the muleteers carrying their merchandise on donkeys and horses.

Mexico is a country that still preserves a great variety of indian groups. This doll maker offers her handicrafts to the tourists.

The Cultural Institute Cabañas with its copper dome, show the way to the "Plaza Tapatia", an open space that ends at the Degollado Theatre.

An enormous plaza serves as vestibule to the Franciscan convent and the Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan.

Chapala is the largest lake in Mexico.

Jalisco Stadium is home of the Chivas and Atlas soccer teams. It was inaugurated on January 31, 1960. In 1968 the Olympic games were held here, and in 1970 and 1986 the World Soccer Cup.

Another view of Franciscan convent and the Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan.

 The delightful town of Ajijic, situated on the edge of Lake Chapala.

Main plaza and government palace are heart of Guadalajara. The palace was constructed by Manuel Jose Conique during the XVIII century. The kiosk of the plaza was made in Paris.

The facade of the Basilica of Our Lady of Zapooan, finished in 1730, is located at the center pf the Franciscan Convent which dates from the XVI century.

Tlaquepaque is a small town of artisans very close to Guadalajara. Its plaza and the Church of Saint Peter are the heart of the "Villa Alfarera", as it called.

Jose Clemente Orozco painted between 1936-1939, at the Government Palace, this portrait of Miguel Hidalgo, who initiated the independence of Mexico, and in this same building abolished slavery in 1810.

Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of St. John of the Lakes s a Catholic church located in the city of San Juan de los Lagos.

And for the end this registered cover with fantastic stamps!

International Year of Crystallography, issued on 19.11.2014.
Fol Art: Horn Comb & Lacquered wooden chest, from set of 12, issued this year.
Archaeology - Xochicalco, complete set, issued on 01.10.2015.


Thank you very much Alonso!