Locations > Mexico City > Sanborns' and the Puerta del sol

Sandborns in Mexico City – UTV, 95.

Sanborns' House of Tiles; a popular rendez-vous in the central zone of Mexico City, not far from the telegraph office that Hugh has just visited. Lowry more than once compared the accretive method of Under the Volcano to this edifice.

Image souce: Flickr user Diablo Feliz.

… the cantina El Puerto del Sol in Independencia … sunlight flooding the bar of El Puerto del Sol – UTV, 70, 90.

La Puerta del Sol [sic] is a cantina on Cinco de Mayo [sic], opposite the Hotel Canada in Mexico City; Lowry's relocation of it to Independencia (the next street running parallel) may be for the sake of a pun (as Cuernevaca's "Guerrero" becomes the "Avenida de la Revolucíon" [232] for the sake of a circlular route). The "doomed men" and "crash of trumpets" intimate Madrid's central square, La Puerta del Sol, the scene of much conflict in the Civil War.