Dimenticare l’aquila calpestata. La Conquista e il passato precoloniale nel paesaggio urbano di Città del Messico

Abstract

The paper examines the various forms in which the memory of the Spanish conquest has been materialized and signified in the monuments of Mexico City, formerly the capital of both the Aztec empire and the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Looking at how the memory of the Conquest was settled in the “mnemonic landscape” of the city can reveal the identity strategies of a country that, born on the ashes of a destructive event, has always been forced to make sense of its painful past in order to plan its own future.