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Mexico - Gasolinería

Gasolinería
Originally uploaded by ga.briela

This is a typical gas station. Pemex (Petróleos Mexicanos) is the only oil industry enterprise in Mexico.

México - Puesto de periódicos

This is a big newstand with newspapers, magazines and even cookies, soda and candy.

Paris - Newspaper kiosk

  Paris - Newspaper kiosk 
  Originally uploaded by jmgobet

You can find newspaper kiosk almost in every street in Paris.

Paris - Ice track in Paris

  Ice track in Paris 
  Originally uploaded by jmgobet

Ice skating in front of Montparnasse tower.
Another Ice track is set in front of Paris city hall for all the winter.

México - Pista de hielo

Even though Mexico is not that cold in winter, this year the city installed an ice track for free skating at the central square (Zócalo). You can see how many people gathers around, because for many is the first time to see something like this. Behind, the flag, some weird construcion and the Metropolitan Cathedral.

México - Luces de Navidad

I didn't get any christmas windows, but every year the city gets iluminated by beautiful christmas adornments and lights. This time the subject was mexican traditions (posadas, piñatas, etc.). In this picture, some women and children with baskets full of nochebuenas (christmas eve flowers or ponsettias).

Paris - Christmas window

This is a christmas window of the Bon Marché, one of the biggest (and luxurous) department store.
PS: Mexico, sorry for the delay and hurry up, christmas window will stop at the end of this month!

Paris - Petit Palais

Le Petit Palais was opened officially December 11, 1902, between the Champs-Elysees and the Avenue Alexandre III.  The collection includes Poussin's The Massacre of the Innocents, Ruben's Prosperpina, and Rembrandt's Self-Portrait with Poodle.  There are also Impressionist selections from the nineteenth century by Pisarro, Morisot, Cassatt, Manet, Renoir, and Gauguin.  The museum has also more than 12,000 prints.

Mexico - Bellas Artes

This is the Fine Arts Palace and is one of the most beautiful buildings in the city. Inside, there is an architecture museum, several museum rooms for various exhibitions, many mexican murals and a huge theatre for opera, concerts, ballet, etc.

Mexico - Glorieta de Cuauhtémoc

We had 2 emperors but both for a short period and there are no monuments dedicated to them. However, before the spaniard colonization there were many emperors. This is a monument dedicated to Cuauhtémoc, the last aztec emperor who was tortured by the spaniards by burning his feet so he would tell where the treasure was. They were looking for gold, he was defending cacao.