p-day into the city

With Dennis as our Tour guide we ventured into the city.  We went to the museum of light that is now housed in this building.  The building was constructed in 1588 as a Jesuit boarding school  The Jesuit's are a male religious order of the Catholic church.  The Society of Jesus, the Jesuits lived and studied is this building called the San Lldefonso College.  It is amazing quiet and peaceful inside this courtyard or plaza compared to the very busy streets of Mexico City.   

This is a stained glass window in the College.  At the bottom it says "Love, Order and Progress".  Is that anything like what we put on our walls now?  "Love, Live and Laugh"

We ate lunch at the top of the Grand Mexico City Hotel that overlooks the plaza of the zocalo or historic downtown area.

The hotel is indeed grand as seem from the top floor just outside the restaurant patio.

That day the main plaza was scheduled to have a protest or demonstration.  Hence all the police below.  There were every where.  The next day on Saturday there was a concert scheduled so the plaza was set with a stage.  There are police in white shirts that surround the plaza preventing anyone from entering.  The demonstration as going to be put on by the relatives and parents of the youth who were killed by the police in a student uprising many years ago.  (like 30 years ago)