US EditionNew campaign calls on Mexicans to rediscover the capital’s heart through revered churches
The Mexico City Historic Center Trust aims to protect heritage sites damaged by earthquakes with 26 cultural activities planned for 2026, promoting over 40 churches.
- Recently, the Mexico City Historic Center Trust launched an initiative to encourage Mexicans to reconnect with the historic heart, offering visits to more than 40 churches including La Profesa as part of 26 cultural activities planned for 2026.
- Driven by damage from a deadly earthquake, experts working with the trust restore La Profesa church, whose heritage spans the 17th through 21st centuries and preserves original paintings.
- Restorers replaced the entire floor and carried out surgical repairs, preserving La Profesa church’s original choir stalls and hidden upper-floor gallery while Jesús Martínez’s team fixed cracks in the clock and bell tower.
- Although some spaces remain closed, the trust reports artworks are back on the walls, and Anabelá Contreras said they aim to engage young people in heritage preservation.
- The trust is also promoting exhibitions and workshops, including one celebrating the 700th anniversary of the founding of Tenochtitlan, while Kilómetro Cero showcases hidden neighborhood gems to keep spaces alive.
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By María Teresa Hernández, Mexico City (AP) — The Church of La Profesa in the heart of Mexico City has seen almost everything. An uprising left bullet holes in its walls in 1847. A fire devoured its wooden floors decades later. Its foundations are slowly sinking due to unstable ground. “The importance of this space is that it is still alive, that it is still in use,” said Alejandro Hernández, a professor of art history. Along with other experts,…
History, capitalized, will certainly catch any unsuspecting venture to the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, in the heart of Mexico City. In this same site one of the largest and most organized commercial centres in the indigenous world was exhibited. Today, rebuilding its fast-paced atmosphere requires an exercise of imagination. It is enough to walk a few steps and look out to the neighboring pit where a succession of mysterious struct…
MEXICO CITY- The Church of La Profesa in the heart of Mexico City has seen almost everything. An uprising left bullet holes in its walls in 1847. A fire devoured its wooden floors decades later. Its foundations sink slowly due to the instability of the land. YOU MAY INTEREST: After its prohibition in Mexico, the cartels become entrenched in the juicy business of the vapers “The importance of this space is that it is still alive, that it is still…
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