CDMX - Tenayuca/Biblioteca Vasconcelos

For some time Alfonso had been promising to take me to visit Tenayuca, an archaeological site within Mexico City constructed around 1224.  Tenayuca is considered to be the earliest capital city of the Chichimec, nomadic tribes who migrated and settled in the Valley of Mexico, where they formed their own kingdoms.  Getting to the site by MetroBus gives one an appreciation for the size of the city as we transfer a couple of times and ride for a long time.  This site is little known and we were the only visitors.  In fact, the entrance was locked and we had to get the attention of the guard, to let us in.  It's a nice little site with some unique features such as the predominant use of the snake image. Peculiar that it's not on the tourist track.

 Alfonso

They hadn't bothered to turn the lights on in the museum but there was enough natural light to see some of the exhibits.  A modest collection.

Another attraction that Alfonso thought I'd like to see is the Biblioteca (library) Vasconceles, dubbed the Megalibrary by the press, completed in 2006 to the tune of about US$98 million and covering 38,000 sq meters. It's an impressive and unusual library and is about as state of the art as you can get technologically.  

 The stacks

The library is located at a major transportation hub where many MetroBus routes connect, there's a subway stop and the terminal for a commuter train that I had never heard of: the Suburban Railway of the Valley of Mexico Metropolitan Area (Spanish: Ferrocarril Suburbano de la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México)  It is designed to complement the extensive Mexico City metro  system, Latin America's largest and busiest urban rail network.  It carries around 184,000 riders per day and there are plans to expand it.

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