After a week in the city of Puebla, which is like "the door to the south" of mexico, from Puebla you know that already are in the south of Mexico, but still near the center or in the center.
A fountain near my hotel, in a park, the design of the fountain is great, the architect used tiles (something emblematic of Puebla), a little dirty, but still can be pretty, creepie at night (not enough light)
I just arrived to the city of Puebla, the fourth largest in Mexico, historically important, old and classy... Well the historic district.
This city used to be the second most important in the country, also the second largest.
The historic district is full of historic buildings and legends, the cathedral is breath taking probably, with Mexico city's, the only real cathedral (compared with the european cathedrals)
The bad part, the garbage, there is dirt everywhere, graffiti in every place, and the people, one of the worst drivers in Mexico, they don't care about the pedestrians, I literally had to jump to avoid being hit by a bus in a pedestrian pass (with zebra lines), and they have an obsession with the honk, noise all the time, they honk pedestrians even. So rude!
Also the rest of the city (outside historic part) is really ugly, first I thought I was in a bad, poor neighborhood, but continue riding everything looked the same.
There is a modern part of the city where the "in" mall is located, the golf course and the expensive stores and universities, this part looks nice, even to live there, if you can afford it, very notorious where the rich live.
While I was in Puebla city the Hurricane did something rare, enter the center of Mexico, it actually arrive to , my city, but by then it was a tropical depression (he got depress, anyone is a therapist?), I experience a part of a hurricane, not the center of it, only a tail.
Dean caught me inside the Cathedral, did God wanted me to be there for a while?, the day was sunny and brigth and suddenly without warning in less than 30 minutes the sky was covered in clouds, and again without notice amazing winds and rain, the rain was really strong so the people of the cathedral closed the doors (it was raining sideways), when it finnally calmed I was able to open the door and shoot some video. After all that only a few trees had fell and some cars where damage because of the trees.
Last week I was in the city of "Puebla de Zaragoza" in the state of "Puebla de los Ángeles", this was the second most important city in the viceroyalty, it is one of the biggest cities, and it is probably one of the most "MEXICAN" nature in it, since many mexican dishes where created in this city, it is also home of one of the most beautiful Cathedrals in Latin America, really impressive cathedral.
I was in this city for second time in my life, the first time I had 3 years old, so I don't have any memories of that.
In Puebla the Mole Poblano was invented, is the sauce that is prepared with chocolate, the rompope (mexican egg nog), camotes de frutas (sweet potato candy), talavera (china), chiles en nogada (chiles prepared specially for the emperor Agustin I conmemorating the victory over Spain), chalupas and so many other great things.
I visited the Conventions centre, the church of "San Francisco", the cathedral, the city Zocalo, the municipal palace and goverment palace, I even have a photo taken with the governor of the state, very famous "Gober precioso" (precious gover) he is famous because a recording that show the public how corrupt he is, and very bad mouth, he is like a tourist attraction too.
There so many things to say about Puebla, and so little time, so I will made it short, IT IS BEAUTIFUL and large, and poblanos (people from puebla) love the hunk of the cars, every single time you hear them.
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