good day first world travellers and welcome back today I'm back in the centre of
Mexico City filming a much requested video behind me is the palicio de
Bellas Artes and over there is Alameda Park in this video we're gonna take a
look around and we're gonna check out see what you think let's go
so when you think of Mexico City and you see pictures of this city and adverts
things like that this building is often featured because it is very impressive
just look at it the construction began on this place in
1907 and it has a dome up the top which I'll show you now
and this place is basically home to performances like phase that sort of
thing on the top floor is also a Museum of Archaeology ok look inside
so how awesome is this inside how lovely does it look if you're an art
geek you might want to know that outside the architecture is Art Nouveau and
there's something like its Art Deco which I absolutely love Art Deco pretty
much dates from around early 1930s far so now I've been to a lot of Art Deco
places in the past and you can see the lettering which is amazing I love it and
the design of things is just out of this world
just a tip so this cost sixty five pesos to get in to upstairs bit which we're
going to go to in a minute don't go to these ones that just say TAQUILLAS because
they are for actual performances like ballet and things like that you want to
go to the one over there TAQUILLA Museo useful tip let's go so in
the Palacio de Bellas Artes there are lots of murals and artwork so Mexico is
famous for muralists let me get the words out and also other artists by
Diego Rivera you saw in my koi cam video I briefly talked about Frida Kahlo Diego
Rivera is another famous Mexican artists and out there you've got
the dome which is amazing I love this place why not come here earlier thanks
subscribers
just look at this behind me amazing so you might want to know something about
me I used to work in London I used to work at a Facebook Hoover Building which
I put on the screen now which is a typical example of Art Deco architecture
now you've got the metal banisters wonderful I'm geeking out one out
so apologies for the shaky camera now I did get told off for filming but screw
it god that's one thing that really annoys me about these places the puke on
film I'm not doing any harm you know but and and feel free to jump up me in the
comments for being a culturaless swear word poorly spelt with incorrect
grammar please because I don't like art it's boring
I'm being honest you know I have no idea about appreciating art that sort of
thing don't mind and the thing for me though was the actual design of the
building the art deco thing as I said that's much more impressive for me but
obviously if you're into art and you could appreciate on you know a bit about
Mexican art this is a place to come to we got to go to the park now lovely bird
you probably know it is quite a sunny day in Mexico City lovely day the
park is over there Palacio de Bellas Artes is there now
if you're a member of the pronunciation police get ready to comment in the
comments Alameda Park Alameda Park I don't know whatever is a park basically
it used to be an Aztec marketplace back in the day and I've read that it was
once used to burn witches at the stake charming and it was also used as a
template for inspiration for Chapultepec Park which if you haven't seen my video
on that you can check it out up above is the biggest park city park in the
Americas bigger than Central Park amazing and we're gonna go for a walk
now in Alameda Park I've done a bit of people-watching check out the hot
Mexican men and I guess this very much goes back to what I said ages ago in
other videos about the fact that you know before I came here I didn't expect
Mexico City to be full of parks like this obviously this one isn't as big as
Chapultepec Park but you know it's another park in this big city slap-bang
in the middle of the city this time and you know when before I came in art
bowler and you know my ignorant view of Mexico City was it was very busy and
hustling and bustling and yeah it is but in terms of the clean green space I
didn't expect this and more than likely if you are a tourist you probably don't
either well you probably not a stupid isn't he
so this park has been here since 1592 so it's extremely old it was once
about half the size basically they extended it after a period of time and
there are some fountains and I read somewhere that in 1848 after you know a
good 30 years after 20 30 years after Mex
independence in Spain the fountains were filled with alcohol as some kind of
celebration I'm not sure if that was to do with actual Mexican Independence but
like I said it was a good few years after checkout on Wikipedia
so I hope you've enjoyed having a look around another area or Mexico City and I
think you will agree legacy is not what you would expect awesome don't forget to
leave a like leave a comment what do you think of the arts are you more of an art
connoisseur than I am let's face it you probably are and don't forget to
subscribe there's a few more videos coming home Mexico City before I head
off to Puebla Oaxaca Merida etc so stay tuned thanks for watching and I'll catch
you later