• Museo del Templo Mayor - We will start with an introductory talk from a terrace overlooking the ruins of the Aztec Great Temple and other significant buildings. Then, we’ll walk on the bridge that crosses the ruins of the House of the Eagles and the Great Temple, introducing the modern peaceful coexistence of religions in Mexico after centuries of Jewish persecution by the Spanish Inquisition. The influence of the neighboring Palace of the Marquis of the Royal Duty and other buildings will also be explained.
• Catedral Metropolitana de la Ciudad de Mexico - We will walk past the Metropolitan Cathedral to see the Chapel of the Souls, where teachings against heresy (other religions) are displayed. From a vantage point, we can appreciate the colonial architecture designed to deter people from abandoning Christianity for Judaism.
• Plaza de Santo Domingo - We will visit the main trading marketplace from the 16th to the 19th centuries, where Jews-in-Hiding had to trade their merchandise while being watched from the Palace of the Inquisition. At the palace, we will decipher its anti-Semitic hidden messages as well as those on the Santo Domingo church, the starting point of El Camino Real, a safe haven for Jewish traveling traders of the time.
• Palacio De La Medicina - We will visit the Administration building of the Inquisition as well as their living quarters. The tour includes the torture chambers, cells, dungeons, cages, and drowning pools. Closed on Mondays and during UNAM vacations.
• Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso - We will see from the outside the place where Diego Rivera met Frida Kahlo, the daughter of Wilhelm Entemann Kahlo of Jewish-Ashkenazim heritage. We will learn how the Mexican anti-Fascist movement began with their support, canceling the first and only ever anti-Semitic national convention with the help of then-President Lázaro Cárdenas.
• Mercado Mixcalco - We will proceed to see the boroughs of Mixcalco and La Merced, Mexico City’s Garment District on the East Side, where Jewish families established themselves and progressed while living in tenements at the turn of the 20th century.
• Iglesia de Santa Teresa La Nueva - Next to Santa Teresa, we will see and pass by the first purposely-built synagogue, Sephardic Mount Sinai, in Mexico, and the neighboring one, the first Ashkenazim synagogue in Mexico, Nidjei Israel, where the experience comes to an end.
• Sinagoga Historica Justo Sierrra - We will visit the first Ashkenazim synagogue in Mexico.

• Entrance fees to select public and private venues included or waived.

From the arrival of the community in Mexico along the conquistadors, five hundred years ago, and the fateful ending of some at the stake, to the neighborhood where the second wave of migration established themselves at the turn of the 20th century, amazing history will unravel as we share the advancement of the newcomers from tailors and seamstresses to the developed textile and jewelry industries which led to the establishing of Mexico’s modern financial system. We end by learning of the abandonment of temples and the moving to better areas of town.

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