Meeting Point

To be arranged

ALAMEDA PARK MUSEO MURAL DIEGO RIVERA

Our tour begins in the Alameda park founded in 1592, at west Plaza de la Solidaridad where we gain access to the Museo Mural Diego Rivera , there we will admire the mural "Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda" painted in 1947. We will join Rivera´s hand and brush in an eloquent synopsis of 400 years of history told by 100 different historical characters in more than 72 m2 /776 ft2, with Alameda Park as backdrop.

PALACE OF FINE ARTS

We continue along fountains and statues as we walk to the Palace of Fine Arts, a beautiful turn of the XX century building by Italian architect Amado Boari, commissioned by President Porfirio Diaz. The massive eclectic building preserves inside its marble white walls 17 murals works by a Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, Davida Alfaro Siqueiros, Jorge Gonzalez Camarena, Rufino Tamayo amongst others greet us with different narrative expressions, but all of them of eloquent beauty as they tell us about the political, social and historical episodes of Mexico.

STREET WALKING TO OLD SCHOOL OF SAN IDELFONSO

will walk towards Donceles St.,as we admiring different iconic buildings thar frame Madero St.. and Zocalo , We will have some time for lunch at one of the local restaurant . Our afternoon will be dedicated to visit the Colegio Grande de San Idelfonso a viceregal builiding wich dates back to the end of the S. XVI. We will admire some of the early exponents of this Muralistic Movement , including Diego Rivera Jean Charlot, Jose Clemente Orozco , Ramon Alva de la Canal , Fernando Leal. It was here that Diego Rivera's brushgave birth to , the Mexican Muralist Movement in 1922 .Our tour ends next to the Catderal Metropolitana with high spirits after and incredible artistic journey through Mexico´s History

Ending Point

Mexico Metropolitan Cathedral