Walk through Santa María de la Ribera
Guide: La Embajada
May 16, 2017
The tour through Santa María la Ribera (SMLR) neighbourhood suggested by La Embajada goes through this multicultural zone where diversity is revealed through dozens of schools, laundry rooms, bakeries and typical restaurants. The meeting point was Kiosco Morisco: an emblematic place in the heart of Santa Maria La Ribera district that was manufactured in Pittsburg and built at the end of the 19th century by José Ramón Ibarrola as the Mexican Pavilion at the 1886 World’s Fair in New Orleans and at the Exhibition of San Luis of 1902.
Along the way, we walked through some of the district’s centenarian streets, named after their illustrious inhabitants of the past and other personages, such as the writer Amado Nervo, the diplomat, essayist and poet Jaime Torres Bodet, the mineralogist and painter Dr. Atl, the doctor and novelist Mariano Azuela, and the teacher, lawyer, play-writer, journalist and politician Eligio Ancona.
ABOUT THE RAMBLE INTERLUDES. The Ramble Interludes cycle proposes a series of walks; each one will depart from a space that have a special connection with art and the city and will focus on a specific urban context, a certain neighborhood. Representatives of ten different spaces will guide subjective visits to the urban surroundings the building belongs to; they will point out spontaneous situations that have sparked their interest or anonymous architectural landmarks. This series of encounters thus sets out to investigate the relation between the architecture of the city and its users through case studies where different communities and collectives are connected with their districts thanks to cultural programmes.
