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is the Main Square of Mexico City, with the National Palace facing you.
The central balcony of the Palace is used every year, on the night of September
15, by the President of Mexico to conduct a ceremony due to the anniversary
of Mexico's Independence from Spain.
Picture was taken a few minutes before 6 pm, when the Presidential Guardsmen
go out to lower the big flag.
In the extreme right you can barely see the Supreme Court building. If you
were there and looked right, you'd see the City Hall, and left the Cathedral,
but they are not shown in this pic.
In the far background, you can see a snow-capped volcano with the shape
of a sleeping woman. Just try to learn its name: Iztaccíhuatl.
Mexico City competes against Tokyo and Sao
Paulo to be the largest city in the world, and it is not worth a short visit,
but worth writing a book from your own travel notes.
The legal limits of the city host 8 million inhabitants, but including suburbs,
outskirts and as-far-as-you-can-see, the total count climbs to some 22 millions.
It is not a bad place to live. It has got itself a bad image because of
a rise of crime (thanks, Denzel Washington, for "Man on fire"),
but it is being slowly controlled. Traffic and pollution issues have improved
more noticeably. And there is no scarcity of interesting things to do: 120
museums (don't miss the National Anthropology Museum!), parks, the biggest
and better universities of Latin America, movies, bars, sightseeing, buildings
and lots of stuff.
The city is now remembering the 20th anniversary of a huge earthquake
on September 19, 1985, that killed some 10,000 people. Since then, construction
safety and emergency response abilities have improved also impressively.
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