Sparks Mexico Web

Colima University Museum of Folk Art

sparks — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:50:25 +0000

Museo Universitario de Artes Populares Near downtown Colima, Mexico

This museum is located in a neighborhood known as “La Atrevida,” on the corner of Gabino Barreda and Manuel Gallardo Zamora streets. To get to here from downtown Colima, coming from Torres Quintero Square specifically, you need to walk 7 blocks up Gabino Barreda street. Then you will find the University complex known as “IUBA.” In this complex you will find the Pablo Silva

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Museo Casa de Ignacio Allende

sparks — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:04:29 +0000

Colonial museum in San Miguel de Allende Mexico

Casa de Ignacio Allende is the birthplace of Ignacio Allende, one of Mexico’s great Independence heroes, and it now houses a historical museum. The “Museo Histórico de San Miguel de Allende” has a collection of weapons, documents and other objects that belonged to this independence war hero. Located at 1 Cuna de Allende Street, next to the Parroquia de San Miguel on the main plaza.

Museo Casa de Ignacio Allende

Lake Zirahuen – Michoacan

sparks — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:33:57 +0000

Lake Zirahuen in Michoacan Mexico, is an enchanting lake just 20 kilometers from the city of Patzcuaro along the highway toward Uruapan. You can also access the lake from Santa Clara del Cobre over a cobblestone road. The name Zirahuen means “Place of Smoke”, maybe from the mountain mist over the lake.

The clear blue water of the lake, one of the cleanest in Mexico, makes this a real visual pleasure. There is still

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Dolores Olmedo Patino Museum

sparks — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:25:40 +0000

The Dolores Olmedo Patino Museum Xochimilco, Mexico City

The Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum in Xochimilco houses the most important private collection of artwork by Diego Rivera. As well as 137 works by the famous Mexican muralist and painter, there are 25 notable works by Frida Kahlo, 43 by Angelina Beloff, and an extensive collection of Pre-Hispanic pieces and Mexican folk art.

Named after the rich philanthropist who donated the collection, the museum is housed

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Cuzalapa Organic Coffee

sparks — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:21:12 +0000

Cuzalapa Organic Coffee Cooperative Cuautitlán – Jalisco – Mexico

Cuzalapa is the site of a very old shade grown coffee plantation that grows organic Arabica beans. Cuzalapa is a little over an hour from Melaque off highway 80 to the south-east of La Huerta on the northern edge of the Manantlan Biosphere Reserve.

The coffee is grown under the shade of a large variety of other trees and the women of the

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A religious experience

sparks — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:01:51 +0000

The small parades in Melaque with barely 100 people in them at most is all I’ve experienced when it comes to religious festivals in Mexico. I call it a festival because that’s what the whole two weeks in Jocotepec has been but this parade of Señor del Monte around town is large and quite somber. I’m just guessing but assume the Christ on the Cross figure is interchangeable with Señor del Monte.

A religious experience

Mexican Village Life – 1958

sparks — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:03:48 +0000

From the Internet Archives – Public Domain Willard Hahn travels to the village of San Diego de Tecoltepec, 6 miles from Toluca. He focuses on the harvesting of maguey juice, the washing of clothes in-stream, and the town’s water cistern, as the village has no running water. The villagers board a beautiful old bus to take their goods to the nearby market in Toluca, and walk home to avoid paying the fare of several

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Fiestas Charrotaurinas Colima – Jan 26

sparks — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:51:01 +0000

Fiestas Charro-Taurinas starts January 26th in the Colima suburb of Villa Alvarez

The Fiestas Charro-Taurinas has been celebrated in Villa de Alvarez every year since 1857, a charro and bullfight festival with cockfights, concerts and more in honor of the patron saint of Colima, San Felipe de Jesus, who protects against earthquakes and hurricanes.

The petatera is a structure that is created with wood and petates which are woven mats. Perhaps

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Kindle 2 3G/Global Wireless

sparks — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:36:47 +0000

Wireless Kindle in Mexico

The map below is of the Guadalajara hotspots and you can check for yourself on the Interactive Map link. I would also check with locals that might be using Kindle Wireless to make sure you don’t have to drive to a more central location. The map does indicate that there is wireless access in the Lake Chapala (slower speed) area and much of Mexico. I’ve received a number

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Welcome Señor del Monte

sparks — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:06:59 +0000

While the holidays are over in most lakeshore communities, Jocotepec residents are just getting started with the town’s fiestas patronales honoring El Señor del Monte (Lord of the Mount). The boisterous celebration runs for two full weeks to climax on the third Sunday of the month, falling this year on January 16. A sequence of fiesta happenings – punctuated by noisy fireworks – includes religious processions and services, bull-riding contests, cockfights, horse races,

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