Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México
. Founded in 1551, is public but at the same time - precisely - 'self' by the state, legally and politically. Of course, huge, huge, chaotic. A city within a city. A real city, with its streets, bicycle paths, bus routes inside: today there are 5 (and other organizations are acting 5). Miles and miles of academic buildings, according to Wikipedia there are a thousand. Also according to the good wiki, three million square meters in size. Walking from Rectoría Central Library, or from one end of campus, it would mean no less than an hour, probably an hour and mezza.E well as the rest of the internal movements between different faculties, libraries , research institutions, relying only on their own feet, is of course unthinkable. In comparison the old treks Via Plana Italgas seem like going to the dining room to the kitchen (message between the lines to the dear old comrades of scipol pigs, but the shuttle were able to put it? Ah ah ah! End of message).
The UNAM has existed since 1551, but the campus that now houses it was built in the '50s; planted where there was a nature reserve (and in fact it seems that the work started bypassing some 'standards). The project was entrusted to the best Mexican architects of the time, and have also contributed muralists: Diego Rivera, Alfaro Siqueiros, and others. The masterpiece is the Central Library (the building of the two photos above), full of mosaic murals created by Juan O 'Gorman: a monumental work, which represent aspects of the whole history of Mexico, the pre-Hispanic era to the inevitable Revolution the '10s, plays all eight floors of the central library of the university. The mural art in Mexico City in check and you see different angles of the metropolis, and of course UC is no exception. It is no less than even a tradition of social movements. Obviously, the Mexican Sixty-eight, full of different meanings, in part, other than 'sixty' various European (and deserves far more attention to this line ... but skimpy on the theme, we recommend this beautiful story, the link www.ipsnet. com / chiapas / olibimbi.htm). More recently, two large waves of movements, one in 1986-87 and in 1999-00 one: both against university reform projects which included a sharp increase in taxes and admission and selection criteria more stringent
But instead of ending with these boring politic considerations, because it close with a better known national-popular? Football! The campus of UNAM, rightly, as a team, albeit with a tradition not irrelevant: los Pumas de la UNAM, playing in first division (aka series) or qusi always, with some league win and a team often good (not this year, though). In all CU sells t-shirts, gadgets and everything possible with the inevitable yellow puma logo on a blue background, or vice versa. On the other hand we talk of the team where he played a still beardless Hugo Sanchez, but, more importantly, where he began the legendary Jorge Campos, undisputed owner of "Tri" (the Mexican) in the nineties. It 'was one of the lowest goalies in history, but also the only (maybe) in history to have also played as a striker, even in the space of a lot happened that changed the shirt and put it in attack. 35 goals in his career. That phenomenon. Sorry for the digression popular national ... But for people like Jorge Campos, he does this and more.
