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Figure 61: Antonio Ordóñez Figure 62: Aztec Broadaxe c.1520 Dancing Flamenco in a Tablao in Sevilla Windmills at Consuegra, La Mancha The walled city of Avila, Spain. Es Tlatelolco. Hoy se llama La Plaza de las Tres Culturas. Codex depicting the sacrificial practice of the Aztecs. The torture of Cuauhtemoc by the Spaniards looking for the gold from the Aztec treasury after the fall of Tenochtitlan. This is a modern-day descendant of the Aztecs. El Estilo de la China Poblana Los Principes de Asturias Frida Kahlo, Mexican artist and wife of Diego Rivera. La Quebrada, Acapulco, Mexico: famous for cliff diving. Manolete being carried from the bullring after being gored by the bull "Islero". Spanish seafood and rice dish, paella La Casa de Las Conchas, Salamanca, Spain Mezcal con "sorpresa" en Oaxaca, Mexico La Plaza de Espana en Sevilla Pedro de Alvarado, captain/conquistador with Cortes Piedra del Sol or Aztec Calendar Stone Flowered Patio in Cordoba Patio de Cordoba The Argentine Author, Jorge Luis Borges Royal Wedding of Felipe de Borbon and Letizia Ortiz El Rio Guadalquivir at Cordoba, Spain La Tizona de El Cid, Campeador de Castilla The Canals of Xochimilco, Mexico The Mayan City, Palenque, in Chiapas, Mexico The Mayan City of Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico Una calle de Cordoba La Mezquita de Cordoba Spanish matador made famous by Ernest Hemingway in the novel A Dangerous Summer. Fig. 63: El Arbol de La Noche Triste under which Hernan Cortes and his soldiers regrouped following their disastrous escape from Tenochtitlan in 1520. Fig. 64: This is the interior of the Archive of the Indies, the original Casa de la Contratacion where goods going and coming from the New World were registered. Fig. 65: La Alhondiga de Granitas in Guanajuato, Mexico is the site of the first battle and victory of the Mexican civil war of 1810. Fig. 66: The Basilica de Guadalupe at Mount Tepeyac in Mexico City; shrine to the Patron Saint of Mexico. Fig. 67: La Bandera de Mexico, in the center of which can be seen an eagle perched on a nopal cactus and devouring a snake. This is the original "sign" that the Tenochoa people searched for and found in the Valley of Mexico in 1325. They established their capital on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco and called it "Tenochtitlan". Today it is Mexico City. Fig. 68: This is the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. This is the permanent official location of El Balet Folclorico de Mexico. The heavy weight of this structure has caused it to sink gradually into the soft earth under it, which was once the lake bed of Lake Texcoco of ancient Tenochtitlan. Fig. 69: This is the Spanish dramatist, Antonio Buero-Vallejo, working in his office at his Madrid home. Fig. 70: This is the Mexican novelist, Carlos Fuentes, author of THE BURIED MIRROR and LA MUERTE DE ARTEMIO CRUZ. Fig. 71: This lady is holding a plate of chapulines; roasted, spiced, and diced grasshoppers, a regional delicacy found in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Figure 61: Antonio Ordóñez Spanish matador made famous by Ernest Hemingway in the novel A Dangerous Summer.
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