Running Head: The cultural trip to Jalisco was awesome!
Juan Pablo Martinez Mancilla
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Group 33
October 4 2015
Communication and Art
Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Running Head: The cultural trip to Jalisco was awesome!
“Guadalajara, Guadalajara hueles a pura tierra mojada”, the journey to Jalisco which me and my schoolmates went in the class of Communication and Art was full of surprises, I expected a million of
things that happened but also some others I can’t even imagine before going to all those places, even that the trip only last three days, I discover a world full of new cultural and artistic works and experiences, I learn some of the culture that Mexico is full of. In less words the trip to Jalisco was wonderful because I learned history and art from Jalisco and how cultural it is.
We arrive to Guadalajara on Thursday, this first day we give a look to the important places on the very center of the city, these were big buildings with a long history and culture, it was the 6 pm and from then our adventure started, first we visited the Government Palace of Jalisco, which also have paintings and collections to show us, here was an amazing mural made by Jose Clemente Orozco that followed
me with his depth look. The next place we visited this day was the Ibero-American Library, which has a big collection mainly of literature from all Central and South American countries, “this building have more than 400 years and was first a Jesuit church founded in 1591 but in 1991 the University of
Guadalajara inaugurated the Octavio Paz library” (Angel Ortuño, 2015).

Running Head: The cultural trip to Jalisco was awesome!
On Friday we visited some other buildings near the center, this day was the one we learned more from the culture and it focused on the life of Jose Clemente Orozco and the Cathedral and its surroundings, the murals, sculptures and architecture we saw were amazing and spectacular, first we initiated with the
Cathedral of Guadalajara, a guide named Hortensia give us a travel between the Cathedral, some monuments and parks around the Cathedral, she told us the history of every saint from the Cathedral as well as the parks around them, one of the history was about a Christ, she said that “years ago when the city was in wars, people used to refugee in the Cathedral and that Christ that survived a drown, stop a cannonball that destroyed the wall and enter to the church, without damaging or hurting anybody inside it” (Hortensia, 2015), when Hortensia left us we visited some of the work arts and history places of Jose
Clemente Orozco, a famous muralist in Mexico and the World, first we went to Hospicio Cabañas, a museum that used to be an orphan and were Jose Clemente Orozco have almost 50 murals that made in only 3 years with the incapacity of his view and no left hand, the most famous is the man in flames, it
seems is walking in the clouds, then we visited where his house was before dying, there was one mural and some interactive stuff for the visitors, and by the night we went to the Teatro Degollado, a huge and important theatre in Mexico that was named first Teatro Alarcon in name of the governor, there we saw a splendid ballet of young dancers called Easy Winners.

Running Head: The cultural trip to Jalisco was awesome!
The last day which was Saturday, it was the best and the worst day because I was going to see my family but the art was so boring, we visited the Pantheon de Belen, that is a graveyard where old important people were buried, the architecture on this place is similar to the towers of the Cathedral of
Guadalajara because the same architect built them, also the guide told us some scary and goodness legend of people buried there, then we visit Zapopan and that was the only bad thing in the journey, we went to a museum that the exhibition was awful, I didn’t see anything of art there, for last we went to the Basilica of Zapopan and there is where our cultural journey in Jalisco finished.
What did I learn in the trip to Jalisco? In the trip to Jalisco I learned some piece of the culture that
Mexico have, the master art works of some of the best muralist in the world who is Jose Clemente
Orozco, the fantastic architecture that was built centuries ago! Despite of the short time we stayed, this journey leaves me with a big knowledge about the art and culture of Jalisco that’s the reason I am glad about going to this trip, I spent an incredible time with my friends watching some interesting art.