This restaurant, La Opera, is famous for a bullet hole in the ceiling fired by the revolutionary general Pancho Villa. Pancho is beloved for his role in obtaining Mexican independence from the Spanish. The food here is delicious. In said that the mole, an ancient sauce consisting of over 100 ingredients that takes hours to make, is ¨pretty good¨ here. The taste ranges from sweet to spicy and has absolutely no resemblance to purported ¨mole¨ sauce in purported ¨Mexican¨ restaurants in the states.
Take a gander at the menu...
This marble building Palacio de Bellas Artes is actually sinking due to its weight. The exterior is made entirely of marble. The Catholic Cathedral also started to sink so the city injected massive amounts of concrete beneath its structure. One fact that I was entirely ignorant of is that Mexico City is built upon a huge lake. No one is sure how the Aztecs managed to build their city so robustly upon-under such conditions. The other fact, which is utterly fascinating, is that under the city that we see today are layers of ancient buildings. For instance, next to the Catholic Cathedral stands the very top of an Aztec Pyramid. One more tidbit In and I gleaned from a tour is that the Catholic Cathedral´s measurements are a little out of whack in terms of its length because the church needed to be extended to cover over the indigenous temples.
This black Christ is unique because his legs are pulled up and to the side. You will have to visit Mexico City to learn the miracle that this is associated with. Let´s just say that it involves an assassination attempt and divine intervention.
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