Coyoacanense

Frida in spanish words is "una Coyoacanense", which means she is from Coyoacán, she was born here, in this place of the México Valley and died in the same house where she saw light for the first time.

Coyoacán means place of Coyotes, it was the place where Conquistador Cortez made a palace for himself, it is claimed too, that he erected a house for Malinche, a girl Native-Mexican that help him win over the Aztecs.

As every town in Mexico, Coyoacan has its main plaza, Frida's Casa Azul is just some blocks away from it.


Frida had a simple life in Coyoacán, she strolled the streets when she was a child, she married in the municipality house of town, she used to go to the market, and liked to assist to the plaza's festivities like "16 de septiembre" Independence day, or make appearance in the church, even though she wasn't very religious at all.


In the Blue House she lived, she suffered, she welcomed friends and students, she painted, wrote letters and express her-self on her diary.


But Coyoacán has much more things to offer, just to prove the visitor how this environment nurtured such splendid artist.



Coyoacán with little streets and colorful houses, little plazas and gardens, old train stations now converted in stores or forgotten bridges that at once, deep in the past, it was the only way to go from one place to the other, from Coyoacán to San Angel.