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2013 Oct by Michael Novins |
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October 2013 -- I spent a few days in Cuernavaca, where I visited the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary of Cuernavaca, one of the earliest 16th century monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl (UNESCO World Heritage Site). I spent three night at Las Casas B+B Hotel, well located across the street from Palace of Cortés (http://lascasasbb.com/), and ate at El Barco (known for pozole) and La India Bonita (established in 1933) (http://www.laindiabonita.com.mx/). I made a day trip by bus to Xochicalco, a pre-Columbian archaeological site and World Heritage Site around an hour from Cuernavaca. | |
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2011 Sep by Franklin Murillo |
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We left Mexico DF on Costa bus lines to Cuernavaca. It only takes about an hour to get here. I had booked one night at the Hotel Roma which is walking distance to the city center. There are many family run hotels in the city center, so there is no need to book in advance. When we first arrived we took a collectivo bus to get to the ruins of Xochicalco a UNESCO site. It took us about an hour to get there with the bus and taxi connections. The museum is nice and the ruins are partially original where you can see that most of it has been restored. Its worth taking the time to go see these ruins. When we arrived back to the city center the plaza area was filled with locals enjoying the street entertainment. We walked over to see the most famous hotel and restaurant in the area called Las Mananitas. This place serves the upper crust and is both beautiful and expensive in local terms. The museums were closed so we were not able to see them. We went to probably the oldest restaurant in the city called India Linda (since 1933). We were the only customers in this pleasant garden restaurant and we seemed to be the only foreign tourist in the city itself. The next morning we took the bus to our next destination Acapulco Guerrero. | |
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2006 Jan by Veikko Huhtala* |
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Morelos is the third smallest of Mexico’s states. We were coming by bus from Oaxaca and because it was late afternoon we thought that it was better to seek hotel here, than in Mexico City which was our next destination. Cuernavaca is the capital city of the state and nice place to stay. Most tourists want to see 500 years old The Palacio de Cortes. Cuernavaca is not a small town. There are living more than 350,000 people and main reason for this is that distance to Mexico City is only about 100 km. | |
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1984 Jan by Jorge Sanchez |
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I visited Cuernavaca, Morelos capital, twice, both hitchhiking. The first time was when I went down to Acapulco, from Mexico, and the second time in my way back to Mexico DF. The cathedral of Cuernavaca is UNESCO, being one of the forteen Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl. It is a lovely town and was the prefered of Hernan Cortes and his spanish wife. Since my first goal in that journey was the beaches of Acapulco, we (my canadian girlfriend and I) did not spend much time in Cuernavaca, and visited it only in transit twice, without spending the night there. ............................ But I returned to 2015 and this is what I wrote about Cuernavaca: Although I had been two times in Cuernavaca, in the year 1984, in my way to and back from Mexico to Acapulco, my visits had been too short to consider that I knew Cuernavaca, So in 2015, while waiting for my airplane to Madrid, I spent a full day with its night in Cuernavaca in order to visit the Palace of Hernan Cortes, where I had not been, and revisit the cathedral, because meanwhile I had learnt that a part of it was devoted to San Felipe de Jesus, the first Mexican martyr, of whom I had studied his travel to Japan and his death in Nagasaki, where in the main church of that Japanese city there was (in the year 2010, when I visited it) a Mexican priest who gave me much information about San Felipe de Jesus, a young boy of only 25 years that was assassinated by the Japanese in the XVI century together with many Spanish friars who had gone to Japana to spread Christianity. The palace of Hernan Cortes was today a museum. I liked it, but it lacked soul,. But I most enjoyed the visit to the Cathedral, which is a UNESCO Patrimony of the Humankind together with over a dozen monasteries in the slopes of the Popocatepetl volcano, admiring the statue devoted to San Felipe de Jesus plus the murals on the walls explaining about his journey to Manila, via Japan, in the Galeon de Manila. This cathedral is considered one of the oldest in the whole of America, it contains many barroco elements. In one of the plaques in the patio there was a sign explaining (in Spanish language) that the cathedral was built between 1529 and 1552 and named La Asunción de María. It also explained about the martyrdom of San Felipe de Jesus and the frescoes showing the Galeon de Manila. I do not know if it was forbidden to take pictures, nobody stopped me doing so, and I did not see any sign forbidding it, therefore I took photos of all the frescoes related to the journey of San Felipe de Jesus to Manila and his shipwreck in Nagasaki (San Felipe, as a shipwrecker, could have saved his life, but he preferred to die together with his companions friars and monks). In all, the atmosphere inside that cathedral was breathtaking. That was my star visit in Cuernavaca, and although I still spent a whole days visiting other places in that pretty town that is Cuernavaca and found a wonderful hotel for only 200 Pesos and had as lunch delicious quesadillas and tacos al pastor with a beer Corona (well, I drank 2 beers plus some tequila), my best remembering is the interior of that cathedral and the history related to San Felipe de Jesus. The next day I left satisfied Cuernavaca in direction to Mexico D. F., where I wanted to visit the tumb of Hernan Cortes, plus his monument, inside the first Hospital built by Hernan Cortes orders (the wonderful monastery and Hospital de Jesus Nazareno, in the same place where Hernan Cortes met Moctezuma)), in the whole of the America continent, in the year 1524........................................................................................ PRIMEROS MONASTERIOS DEL SIGLO XVI EN LAS LADERAS DEL POPOCATEPETL UNESCO describe de la siguiente guisa este Patrimonio de la Humanidad: Situado al sudeste de la ciudad de México, en las laderas del Popocatepetl, este sitio comprende catorce monasterios en perfecto estado de conservación. Estos edificios son representativos del modelo arquitectónico adoptado por los primeros misioneros –franciscanos, dominicos y agustinos– que evangelizaron a las poblaciones indígenas en el siglo XVI. Son también un ejemplo de una nueva visión de la arquitectura, en la que los espacios abiertos cobran una nueva importancia. Ese modelo ejerció una gran influencia en todo el territorio de México y más allá de sus fronteras. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Aunque había estado dos veces en Cuernavaca, en el año 1984, de escala en mi viaje de ida y vuelta en autostop desde México D. F. a Acapulco, mis dos visitas de tránsito habían sido demasiado breves como para considerar que conocía esa ciudad, así que en enero del 2015, mientras esperaba en México D. F. mi avión a Barcelona, en España, me desplacé un día con su noche a Cuernavaca con el fin de visitar el Palacio de Hernán Cortés, en el que no había estado, y volver a entrar en la catedral (antiguo convento de la Asunción), ya que mientras tanto había averiguado que una parte de ella estaba dedicada a San Felipe de Jesús, el primer mártir de México, sobre quien había estudiado durante un viaje que realicé en el pasado a Nagasaki, en Japón, ciudad donde fue martirizado el siglo XVI, junto a otros frailes españoles. Felipe de Jesús tenía sólo 25 años de edad. Además, esa catedral de Cuernavaca, erigida por los españoles, formaba parte de los catorce monasterios en las faldas del volcán Popocatepetl, declarados en su conjunto Patrimonio de la Humanidad por UNESCO. De hecho, si sumamos a los de España todos los sitios UNESCO que los españoles construyeron en América y otros países que gobernaron (como Malta, Italia, Filipinas), casi alcanzamos los 100 Patrimonios de la Humanidad de UNESCO, o aproximadamente un diez por ciento de la totalidad (en el año 2015 existen 1031). Hallé en el centro un hotelito aceptable y barato, dejé mi pequeña bolsa y salí a explorar los alrededores. A decir verdad, el Palacio de Cortés, convertido en museo de antropología, me dejó más bien indiferente y lo visité casi por obligación, ya que iba buscando otras cosas en Cuernavaca, como esos catorce monasterios de la lista de UNESCO. La catedral sí que me emocionó. Allí pude ver la estatua dedicada a San Felipe de Jesús, más los murales en las paredes que detallaban su viaje desde Acapulco a Manila, vía Japón, a bordo del Galeón de Manila. Esa catedral está considerada una de las más antiguas de toda América, y contiene muchos elementos del arte barroco. En una de las placas en el patio había un cartel explicando que la catedral fue construida entre 1529 y 1552 y se llamó La Asunción de María. También había un letrero sobre el martirio de San Felipe de Jesús y los frescos que mostraban el Galeón de Manila en el que se embarcó. No sé si estaba permitido hacer fotografías, nadie me impidió hacerlas y no vi ninguna señal que lo prohibiera, por lo tanto, tras comprar un cirio, tomé fotos de todos los frescos relacionados con el viaje de San Felipe de Jesús a Manila y su naufragio en Nagasaki (San Felipe, en calidad de náufrago, podría haber salvado su vida, pero él prefirió morir junto a sus compañeros frailes y monjes). El ambiente en el interior de la catedral era entrañable. Esa fue mi visita estrella en Cuernavaca, y aunque todavía me pasé todo un día explorando otros lugares en esa bella e histórica ciudad, mi mejor recuerdo es el interior de esa catedral y la historia relacionada con San Felipe de Jesús. Regresé al día siguiente a México D. F. regocijado hasta el máximo de los extremos. | |
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