Tlaquepaque
San Pedro Tlaquepaque on the map of Jalisco
San Pedro Tlaquepaque, better known under the short name Tlaquepaque, is a city and administrative center of the municipality of Tlaquepaque in the Mexican state of Jalisco. During the 20th century, only a few kilometers southeast of the center of Guadalajara located suburb of the ever-expanding city was encircled and is now completely enclosed by it. Nevertheless, Tlaquepaque has its village character can keep.
The city had at the last census 2010 575.942 inhabitants and the other places in the municipality again about 30,000, so that the municipality has a total of 608 114 inhabitants.
The city center
Tlaquepaque is known for its arts and crafts of various kinds (including glass, ceramics and leather), which is produced here and offered in the many shops in the city center for sale. The main shopping streets are the scale as a pedestrian section of Avenida Independencia and the parallel to its streets Morelos and Juárez in the north to the south.
In Calle Morelos is located at number 288, Casa de los Artesanas, the house of arts and crafts, the more than one hundred craftsmen are connected and the offer in the numerous stores their products.
The outstanding street of Tlaquepaque is the running from east to west Avenida Independencia. Near its junction with the running from north to south Avenida Niños Héroes is the historic entrance gate of Tlaquepaque (photo top right).
East thereof, are the center of Tlaquepaque and the area in which the Avenida Independencia is a pedestrian zone. In the second block seen from here are the Independencia ( between the streets Alfareros and Francisco de Miranda ), the Museo Regional de la Ceramica ( the regional ceramics museum) and the Casa Histórica. In this located under the number 208 altkolonialistischen house, a contract was signed on June 13, 1821 between the municipality of Guadalajara and Envoys of the Spanish royal family, the Guadalajara brought independence from Spain; Months before the rest of the country has been independent!
Two streets further east runs the south of the Jardin Independencia Hidalgo and hits the running in the North - Southern direction Francisco I. Madero, another prominent shopping street. Directly behind the intersection is located on the south side of Independencia El Parián, one over a full city block extending building, which was built around 1880 and originally served as a market hall. At its center, it houses an interior courtyard, often Mariachis occur in the bandstand. The yard is surrounded by numerous - and independent - restaurants and bars. In a travel guide El Parián is described as the world's largest restaurant complex.
History
The name Tlaquepaque derives from Nahuatl and means " place on loamy soil," was thus not by chance once a major pottery village. For a long time remained a sleepy little village of Tlaquepaque in the immediate vicinity of the city of Guadalajara. Its quiet location attracted during the 19th century to wealthy families who could build stately homes here. For these aristocratic circles out was designed in 1916 the football club CF Atlas, the social equivalent of the folk club CD Guadalajara formed over decades, which was launched in 1906 in a working class neighborhood of the neighboring big city to life. Many of the former mansions house restaurants, art galleries and other public spaces today.
Sources and References
- Bruce Whippermann: Guadalajara ( Moon Handbooks ), pp. 112ff ISBN 1-56691-611-9