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The coat of arms of Jalisco (Spanish: Escudo de Jalisco, lit. "state shield of Jalisco") is a symbol of the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco in Mexico. [1]This shield symbolizes the nobility and lordship of the city of Guadalajara; virtues that the Spanish crown recognized in the work and dangers that the city's inhabitants had endured in the conquest and settlement of the city. [2]
The flag of the city of Guadalajara is the emblem of Guadalajara and is used by the town hall as representative symbol of the city. [3] The flag consists of 3 horizontal stripes, blue, yellow and blue respectively, [4] in the central part of the yellow stripe is the Seal of Guadalajara conceived by the emperor Carlos V in 1539.
He proposed the old flag of Manuel Rodríguez, consisting of two blue stripes and a stripe of gold with the State Emblem in the center; it resembled the flag of the New Galicia or Intendence of Guadalajara. A flag was adopted in February 2008, which was then replaced by the current one on 7 May 2011.
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Guadalajara was also the venue to the Encuentro Internacional de Promotores y Gestores Culturales in 2005. The 2011 Pan American Games were staged and Guadalajara was named the American Capital of Culture in 2005 as well as the Ciudad Educadora in 2006. Guadalajara has been recognized as Mexico's first Smart City due to its use of developing ...
Guadalajara, in the Mexican state of Jalisco, has an extensive public art collection. Works include: Antimonumenta; Árbol adentro by José Fors; Arcos del Milenio by Sebastián; Equestrian statue of José María Morelos; La Estampida; Fuente de los Niños Miones; Fuente Olímpica
Dr Atl was born "Gerard Murillo" in Guadalajara in 1875. He changed his name in order to identify himself as Mexican. Atl worked to promote Mexico's folk art and handcrafts. While he had some success as a painter in Guadalajara, his radical ideas against academia and the government prompted him to move to more liberal Mexico City.
Architects cited the building of the Guadalajara Centro railway station as an example of previous omissions to those guidelines. [11] The director of the state's INAH, Alicia García Vázquez, mentioned that it should "remain in that space, because in the end it symbolically represents these disappeared or murdered women" and that its ...