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THE CATHEDRAL OF CUERNAVACA
MOVIE MAKERS' MEXICO
On Location at Cuernavaca Where Beauty and Romance Await the Amateur
UTSTANDING o f Mexican towns in beauty and interest to the amateur movie maker, who is also a winter traveler, is Cuernavaca, nestling 4,600 feet above sea level, and located only forty miles by motor car, or seventyfive miles by railway, from Mexico City. Owing to the varied display of vegetation, the ever changing scenery between the valleys of both cities, and the sublime appearance of mountains and volcanoes that offer the camera of the traveler an unequaled show of majesty, the journey to Cuernavaca is extremely interesting and enjoyable.
In the valley of Cuernavaca, tucked in among the mighty volcanoes, Ixtlacihuatl ("white woman" in the Aztec tongue), Popocatepetl ("smoking mountain"), and the massive Ajusco, lies this camera paradise, odd and quaint under a deep blue sky. It greets the eye with the exuberant green of palm, laurel and cypress, through which are glimpsed the red tile roofs of the houses, erect
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By Carlos Tejeda
Illustrated by the Author
ed along narrow, uneven streets in the manner of a Spanish village.
Hoary with age stands the antique palace of the Conqueror Cortez, one of the romantic spots of the town, which no cameraman could resist. The musty old Cathedral and other churches built by the Spaniards in the XVII Century constitute other mystic and graceful features of Cuernavaca. They vividly suggest pictures of evening twilight, peace pervading the dusky surroundings, and the grave chiming of the nearby church bell, casting a veil of meditation over the spirit of II Penseroso.
Across the street from the Cathedral, and totally enclosed within high walls, is the old Jardin Borda, named after the powerful miner and millionaire who created it. Within, the visitor experiences a sense of grandeur and solitude, created by the tropical wealth of vegetation around him which expresses itself in trees of colossal height and multitudinous flowers that pervade the air with their essence, while here and there soft whispering fountains give an old fashioned and romantic character to
the spot. A beautiful panorama of the valley is beheld from a "mirador," a sort of informal watch tower, erected in one of the corners of the garden. Here, indeed, are a multitude of opportunities for filming the exquisite.
During the last century the Emperor Maximilian, his wife and Empress, Carlota, and their retinue dwelt for some time in Borda's Garden. The royal couple grew very fond of this beautiful place that basks under a sky diaphanous as the Andalusian heavens. An American enterprise now has a lease on the property, which it has transformed into a very good hotel, the Borda Gardens Inn, most desirably located in the midst of this small forest. One of the old ponds has been transformed into a swimming pool, but happily the precious traces of past centuries, and an intentional carelessness that is suggestive of both poetry and history, have not been effaced.
Fascinating subjects for the camera are also to be found in visiting the typical industries of Cuernavaca. Here are to be seen and filmed the manufacture of pottery, sandals,