Photos are by the author unless otherwise noted. Readers of travel literature can hardly miss the numerous posts on overcrowded and overrated destinations. The mobs overrunning sites like Rome, Barcelona, Venice, and the Amalfi coast, have begun to spark interest in lesser-known, off-the-beaten-path locations. If you’re looking for an uncongested but exceptional destination, it’s hard…
The Cortés Palace in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico was damaged severely in a devastating earthquake on September 19, 2017. The 7.1 Richter-scale quake damaged thousands of buildings in the State of Morelos including scores of convents and other historical sites. Reconstruction of historic buildings is the job of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH)…
This post is an updated version of an article published in LIVE & INVEST OVERSEAS, Feb. 13, 2013. Click on the photos to enlarge them and read the captions. I knew I would live one day in Cuernavaca the first time I brought a group of students from freezing western New York for a SUNY…
The following is a talk I gave to the Cuernavaca expat community for a joint celebration of Canada Day and Independence Day, July 4, 2019. My friends, it is altogether fitting that we should celebrate American independence jointly with Canada Day. The two countries share the longest unmilitarized border in the world. The volume of…
The State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport has a long history of engagement in Study Abroad in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, a celebrated center for teaching Spanish as a second language. In the 1960s, the university offered limited opportunities for student experiences overseas. During his tenure from 1965 to 1981, President Albert W. Brown presided…
All photos are by the author. They cannot be appreciated fully on a cell phone so please open the post on a laptop or other large device. Click on the photos to enlarge them and read the captions. Use your forward arrow to scroll through groups of photos. CUERNAVACA HAS A SPECTACULAR NEW MUSEUM. The…
CUERNABUS, THE CITY’S TOURIST ATTRACTION The Cuernabus tours that had been reduced only to weekends and holidays are now running again seven days a week. The one-hour-twenty-minute tour of Cuernavaca departs from centro daily at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm, and 5 pm. This is a private service owned by Pullman de Morelos.…
YOU CAN AFFORD TO GET SICK HERE: MEDICAL CARE IN CUERNAVACA James J. Horn, Ph.D. I am often disgruntled by travel literature, especially articles advising Americans on the best places to retire. They frequently lack information on health services and medical care. Some of the magazines specializing in this genre seem to glorify medically-challenged remote…
This post has been revised to reflect the improved State Department advisory for Cuernavaca, Morelos, January 2016. This is an expanded and illustrated version of a paper delivered August 6, 2015, at Universidad Internacional in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, at the 2nd International Congress, Latin America: Tradition & Globalization. Click on the photos to enlarge them. For…
UPDATE: the museum was closed temporarily after the September 2017 earthquake, but as of July 23, 2018, it is again open to the public. (Photos are by the author unless otherwise noted. Click on them to enlarge) Cuernavaca’s cultural life received a momentous boost when a sensational new museum opened to the pubic on Avenida Morelos 275, next…