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Visiting the house of Frida Kahlo blue
Located in the colonial neighborhood of Coyoacan, Mexico, we found a surprisingly busy place for tourism both domestically and internationally, owing to their stories and what it represents for the country's culture.
We are talking about the famous blue house where he lived Frida Kahlo, a woman who despite his health managed to create beautiful works, which today are a symbol more representatives worldwide.
The establishment occupies an area of more than one block and housing is now a museum where you can see the result of the different emotions that passed the artist.
In the main room of the campus you can see the bed where he was sick and photographs of Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Mao Tse Tung and Stallin, elsewhere, the study, we see the wheelchair in front of a pedestal with the unfinished painting of Stallin.
This site can be seen not only works of Frida but also her husband, the other most important artists of the time, Diego Rivera. An ideal destination for turning over the rich culture of Mexico.
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo and Calderon.
Born on July 6, 1907 Coyoacan in Mexico City; daughter of Guillermo Kahlo prominent German photographer and Matilde Calderon, a very religious woman.
Frida had barely two months when her mother got pregnant again, for this reason the trust to a nana india Yucatan a woman who was very interesting for Frida, but did not speak much as I used to sing songs from their land.
The father of Frida always been a force in Frida and very special to him to know that her daughter was very strong and able to do whatever is proposed.
At 6 years suffers an attack of poliomyelitis that affects one of his legs, and thus suffer the mockery of other children.