2021, Number 1
Xalapa and the virtue of fog
Vásquez VS, Aguilar RF
Language: Spanish
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Page: 34-38
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ABSTRACT
Xalapa (in Nahuatl: Xallapan "spring in the sand"), officially called Xalapa-Enríquez, is a Mexican city, head of the homonymous municipality and capital of the state of Veracruz. It receives the names of "Atenas veracruzana", for the various educational and cultural institutions that have been founded in it, and "City of flowers", a name that Alexander von Humboldt gave it during his visit to the city in 1804. With the murmur city of the vigor of a region full of charms and benefits, hypnotized perhaps by the night and its potion of stars, in a future that is conceiving ideal stories and trends, Xalapa de Enríquez, Veracruz, originally Xallapan, is discovered in the air that we all breathe and it lives us and surrounds us, in the sacred mysticism of a breath of air and health, both for the needs of locals and strangers, intimate and transparent. , the mist is drawn, touches and falls through the paved streets and even some cobbled ones. Below, the araucarias are covered by their whitish mantle, humidity is breathed that gives it away. Walk between streets and alleys.