Mexico City's Mad Mosaic of Old and New Freda Moon - AFR.com
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Mexico City 2014: "As long as the world, shall never perish glory and fame of Mexico-Tenochtitlan" (ocramalerav)

Built on the rubble of violent conquest, Mexico City has endured both the torment of Pacific Rim fault lines and the explosive force of its own expansion.

With a greater metropolitan area of 21 million people, Mexico’s nearly 500-year-old capital comprises ancient stone and gleaming glass, Old World architecture and indigenous tradition.

With its plazas and palm trees, its murals by Mexican masters and its modern street art, it is a beautiful city – and one that has been spared from much of the country’s drug war violence.

In recent years, the Distrito Federal has been treated to the opening of one art institution after the next, from the Carlos Slim-funded Soumaya Museum, which moved into a $70 million building in 2011, to the new David Chipperfield-designed Jumex Museum, which focuses on contemporary work and opened last November.

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