Arcos Vallarta Guadalajara — Attraction in Arcos Vallarta

I walked across this street at the arcs daily to class at CEPE center for foreign students about two miles away from 59 Nicolas Leano where my host family resided. I learned this was the old original entrance into the city. There were always two police uniform men with long rifles there nodded at me and no gunfire. No words but looked friendly. My teacher advised not to talk to police and that aids was high. Not many people talked since I walked most places to keep from getting in wrong bus. Not sure at age 27 why I didn't think to rent a car. Lol but The cabs were good enough for class outings and longer trips on school sponsored buses. The city bus one day at the galleria plaza I watched men in black movie after the mall closed didn't realize so had to walk back to the house since they turned the telephone services off and gave me a door key I didn't think to ask and rightly was in my contract from the start. They were so nice though if I didn't have anything to do two weekends she didn't charge me extra for that meal. I only ate in public on the excursions to other cities with the university along with couples and families and students from several other countries in my class like Germany and Japan. It flooded at another mall so much so they had the city to line up about 20 buses bumper to bumper and moved the water derp enough cats were floating on the sides. That was very scary not to have telephone services suddenly at the host house. Actually brought some tears on the telephone with my mother she asked if I wanted to cut trip short and leave the country but I went back to the house and slept it off until next morning breakfast with the family. I don't think I even mentioned it wanted to forget so badly and not attempt to find the vocabulary in Spanish only the 13 year old knew little English and the head of household was recovering from stroke and total loss of memory being an employee for Kodak in California. California can be stressful if not...

Los Arcos de Guadalajara, son un monumento representativo de la Ciudad en nuestro Estado. Dicho monumento fue erigido como entrada de la ciudad, a raíz de la inauguración de la carretera México-Morelia-Guadalajara, en el año de 1938. La obra se realizó durante el periodo del Gobernador Silvano Barba González, quién encargó el proyecto al Arq. Aurelio Aceves.

Dicho monumento consistente en dos ‘Arcos’ de estilo neoclásico, semejantes a los Arcos de triunfo en Europa. “Los Arcos”, como comúnmente se les conoce, tienen ocho metros de ancho por catorce de altura, y a cada lado de ellos se ven nichos con fuentes monumentales. En medio de los mismos se lee; “Guadalajara capital del Reino de Nueva Galicia, fundada en este lugar el día 14 de febrero de 1542”. El monumento total está coronado por una segunda estructura que cuenta con una seria de ventanas de arco de medio punto, conocida como “Sala de Banderas”, y que servía a la vez como mirador. Fueron construidos por el Arq. Aceves en 1942 a solicitud expresa del gobierno encabezado por el Lic. Silvano Barba Glez., para celebrar el IV Centenario de la Fundación de la ciudad. Por aquellos días el lugar en donde se ubican era un llano, se consideraba que iba a ser la entrada a la ciudad, y por tal motivo en el lado oriente del monumento se lee la frase "Una estancia agradable, es garantía de regreso", y en la parte poniente "Guadalajara, ciudad hospitalaria". El Arq. Aceves realizó el diseño con base en los típicos “Arcos Europeos”, sin embargo añadió en la decoración final azulejos artesanales representativos de Tlaquepaque. Además, en medio de cada arco, se dejó grabado el Escudo de Armas de nuestra ciudad. En 1959 se instaló en la parte superior la “Sala de Banderas”, donde se rendía respeto a los lábaros patrios de los distintos países de nuestro Continente. Además, se usaba como un bello “Mirador”, ya que proporcionaba una excelente vista de la ciudad. Para 1981, y dada su importancia, se cerró la “Sala de Banderas” y se instaló en su lugar la “Secretaría de Turismo del Estado”. Y más tarde hubo un proyecto frustrado de instalar arriba un Café Restaurante, con nada fácil acceso.

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Beautiful structure in GDL that honors when and where Guadalajara was founded... February 14th, 1542.

The other side of this masterpiece also states when the GDL coat of arms was created, by whom and when... November 8th, 1539.

Originally known as, Guadalajara, the capital of the Nuevo Galicia Kingdom.

Truly a piece of...