Mexico - City

As soon as I knew I was flying to Mexico City I decided to visit the `Casa Azul`, the house in which Frida Kahlo was born and where she died (in between she lived in many different places).

Maria, a friend of mine, gave me a nice book about F.K., and as a kind of introduction I started to read it. The book is called "Frida", and is written by Barbara Mujica (an American novelist and Spanish professor). She describes Fridas life in great detail from the viewpoint of her sister Christina. As the book is fictitious, not all the events described in the book, really took place, but the main events are correct.
I really enjoyed reading the book, it´s written very captive and interesting. Mujica starts from the very beginning when Frida was a child, going on to the marriage with Diego Rivera and the engagement with politics, ending with the sickness and dead of Frida. The personality of Frida Kahlo is described very precisely.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/411193.Frida

And I guess almost everybody knows the movie about Frida Kahlo from 2002. Frida is presented by Salma Hayek (a great actress). A really good movie!

I always liked and was fascinated by the pictures of Frida, so through the book and the movie it was fantastic to learn more about her life, her love, her suffering and the background of some pictures.



Well let´s move on to the `Casa Azul` (the blue house): 

(in fact, that house remembered me a lot of the `Jardin Majonelle`in Marrakesch, because of all the intense colors and plants).

The house is situated in the southwest of DF in Coyoacán. This used to be a proper little village by that time (you shouldn´t miss the center of Coyoacán, its really nice, with a nice square, old houses, a cathedral, market and many restaurants and cafés).

The house itself is not so big. There is a nice beautiful patio, with lots of plants and flowers.
You could visit some of the rooms (ktichen, sleepingroom etc.).
What I liked the most was to see the studio of Frida Kahlo, and of course her sleepingroom, with all the dolls and decoration.

There was another special exhibition with her beautiful Techuana dresses and her corsets, crutches etc. (these things where only discovered in 2004)
For more information see the link below:
http://www.museofridakahlo.org.mx/

To put everything togheter:
A great, emancipated women, a fascination life (even if it seemed to be very hard sometimes) and a fantastic work!

In this spirit: `Viva la Vida`