The Urban Ensemble President Adolfo López Mateos, Tlatelolco, was designed by a group of architects headed by Mario Pani And inaugurated, with hype and saucer, by President López Mateos almost as a final act of his government. This period had brought numerous public works and infrastructure projects and with it, The international recognition of Mexico as a modern nation which was seen with the official visits of leaders such as John F. Kennedy or Charles de Gaulle.
From that moment, Tlatelolco is home to more than 200 thousand people who They live day by day and that, despite adverse situations, They have found a daily lifestyle which brings together not only social dynamics, but economic and cultural around a city within the city. But, Why is a Plaza de la Tres Culturas recognized in Tlatelolco? What spaces or constructions do they define it? In this article we tell you the details.
The Plaza de las Tres Culturas represents pre -Hispanic, the viceroyalty and the modern in the same space that brings together the syncretism of our culture.Christian Ortega
The great pre -Hispanic Trade Center
Before New Spain was established in 1521, the different Mesoamerican territories that made up the great Mexican empire shared different cultural characteristics that, In many cases, they created a union and in others, a dangerous rivalry. The case of Tlatelolco and Mexico-Tenochtitlán could fit more in the second type of relationship
Tlatelolco had already fallen in front of the Mexicansmainly because of the enormous difference in the number of warriors that each army had. After that defeat, the Tlatelolcas had to pay tribute to the Mexicans, which implied payment not only through products, but also giving land that were defined, according to the ordinances of Mr. Cuauhtémoc, as beautiful and rich for production.
Tlatelolco represented, in the pre -Hispanic era one of the most important shopping points in the entire Mesoamerican region. His Tianguis It was known as one of the largest and commercially was an attractive point for all neighboring peoples who sought to exchange their goods at that great point. Tlatelolco has also been considered by various archaeological studies such as a twin city, but at miniature, of the Great Mexico-Tenochtitlán. Its temples and urban distribution leave their mark on a great civilization that remains, at certain points, visible to our eyes in front of the modern buildings designed by Mario Pani.