Thursday 10 March 2011

Coyoacán, cultural heart of México

Hi guys: In our last class our teacher Shelley told us to work in groups according to our county or Delegación, I think we all did a pretty good job because regardless its size and problems we all love Mexico City and our hometowns.
As you probably noticed we, the coyotes team, needed more time and space to describe wonderful Coyoacán for it has so many museums, churches, parks, bookshops, little cozy cafes, galleries and so on that it is also called México’s cultural heart … nonetheless it has many many troubles too, one of them is to keep in good shape its historic treasures, like La Conchita Chapel, located in the Barrio with the same name.
Because of this and other problems some neighbors got together and organize -many years ago- citizen’s groups to protect our Barrios, its historic plazas, parks and churches. La Conchita Chapel is really old (XVI Century) and urgently needs a great maintenance job. As you can imagine this sort of work requires not only lots of money but the coordinated actions of several government offices. We neighbors don’t know what part is the more difficult for our authorities: the money part or the coordination part; we suspect the second one.
At any cost we the asociaciones will keep on working towards this purpose because it means a lot for our generation and the ones to come, we owed it to them.

1 comment:

  1. I agree with you Maysa. I love this city and also love Coyoacán. I think it is important to keep on working to preserve our legacy.

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