Coyoacan

If there is a place in Mexico City where we can get lost in time it is Coyoacán. On a bright sunny January morning I discovered Coyoacán. I walked through its streets and visited its beautiful squares. I watched people passing through the Garden of the Coyotes and I walked to the Arches of the old courtyard of the Church of San Juan Bautista. From there I walked along Avenida Francisco Sosa where every house, every door, every corner and every alley is one surprise after another. Several names have taken this road from Camino Real, Paseo de las Damas (because it paraded the girls looking Beau), Avenida Juarez to its current name.

I got ot know Coyoacán taking a tour bus which stopped at the southern circuit, and we had only 12 hours to get to seeas much as possible of the vast Mexico City. But I left wanting more. Walking through its narrow streets, colonial houses and looking into the house of Frida Kalo, which is the blue photo. Coyoacán is one of the zones of the city where you can see the colonial legacy, as if a few decades ago a village on the outskirts of the city, is now fully within it, but still retains its traditional character, which together with its lovely squares, streets and houses, has attracted a big number