FILE - The Mexican national flag flies at half-mast on top of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico ... heavy building began sinking into the soft subsoil that characterizes the city.

The buildings in Mexico City’s historic ... MEXICO CITY — On a recent morning, visitors wandered around Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral, Latin America’s oldest — and one of its ...

Mexico City, Mexico – Walking ... after the Spanish arrived] around 1608 – we started having a difficult relationship with water.” Draining the lakes and building over them created two ...

A score of bellringers clambered to the towers of Mexico City’s Cathedral ... people kneeling before the cathedral’s shut gates. For four years the building had been closed, ever since onetime ...

MEXICO CITY — Experts restoring the interior of Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral said Friday they found 23 lead boxes containing religious inscriptions and relics including small paintings ...

Experts restoring the interior of Mexico ... building began sinking into the soft subsoil that characterizes the city. It is not the first time that relics have been found buried within the ...