The Layers of Mexico City

This is a wall of torn posters that has left layers of colors and words.  I've been taking photos of walls like this, they look like paintings.  The walls have many layers just like this city. 

This is a reminder that the Virgin of Guadeloupe was is from this city and venerated.

A baptismal font in the Cathedral

This is one of the many eloquent and massively decorated chapels in the public Cathedral at the colonial center.  Before the Colonial era there was the Aztec era and as you know they built their city on a lake so when Spain took over it built on the ruins of the Aztec buildings.  This was a problem as the mud and water caused the foundations of these edifices in the historic city to settle and shift.  The pendelum in the photo below shows how the sinking foundations has caused shifting.  All the colonial buildings in the old town have the same problem and buildings that are cracked and unsteady are brought down by the earthquakes that are frequent in this area.  When they do come down they reveal ancient Aztec ruins under the foundations. 

It's interesting to know that the 3 major earthquakes of the last 50 years have all happened on Sept. 19th. 

These are some ex-voto or little charms in thanks for a saint having healed or medical problem after supplication.

This is the penedlum that charts the shifts in the Cathedral.  It is attached to the center of the dome. 

Beautiful colonial lights in the old town as well as a tiled facade.  Carpe diem as they say.

These are some of the still standing high rises after the 1985 earthquake that bought down many in the city.

Below is another image of posters on walls in the city.  This city's got soul.