Nuevo Invento: ¿Qué pensaba Bernal Díaz sobre las calles de Tenochtitlán y los otros caminos?
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, el famoso conquistador español que participó en la conquista de México, quedó fascinado por la impresionante ciudad de Tenochtitlán, la capital del Imperio azteca. En sus crónicas, Díaz describe con gran detalle las calles, avenidas y caminos que recorrieron los españoles durante su estancia en la gran ciudad.
Una de las cosas que más llamó la atención de Bernal Díaz fue la limpieza y el orden que reinaba en las calles de Tenochtitlán. “Las calles de esta gran ciudad están muy bien trazadas y son muy amplias y derechas, y tienen muy buen orden y concierto”, escribió en su obra cumbre, la Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España.
Además, Díaz se maravilló con la compleja red de canales que atravesaba la ciudad, y que permitía a sus habitantes desplazarse en canoas de un lugar a otro con gran facilidad. Estos canales, según Díaz, eran “tan anchos como las calles” y estaban siempre llenos de agua limpia y cristalina.
Por otro lado, Díaz también se refirió a los caminos que unían Tenochtitlán con otras ciudades y poblaciones del Imperio azteca. Estos caminos, según su descripción, eran “muy anchos y bien hechos, y tan derechos que no se torcían a ninguna parte”. Además, estaban flanqueados por árboles y arbustos, lo que les daba sombra y protección a los viajeros.
En resumen, Bernal Díaz del Castillo quedó profundamente impresionado por la ingeniería y el urbanismo de los aztecas, y en particular por las calles y caminos de Tenochtitlán. Sus crónicas nos han dejado un valioso testimonio de la grandeza y sofisticación de esta civilización precolombina.
Palabras clave: Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Tenochtitlán, calles, caminos, Imperio azteca, conquista de México, Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España, ingeniería azteca, urbanismo azteca, crónicas, civilización precolombina.
I find it curious how there are people who have a really altered perception of history and cite sources like Bernal Díaz to try to justify the nonsense they write:
-For the majority of the population who lived in shacks and with deplorable living conditions, in a city that the chronicles say smelled of rot, dead flesh and blood, in a polluted lake that caused gastrointestinal diseases to everyone, In short, it was not nice to live there, things are not idyllic, let's not fool ourselves.
Bernal Diaz del Castillo makes one of the following descriptions:
We arrived at the road to Iztapalapa, from there we saw so many cities and towns populated by the water, on that very straight road we were amazed, the palaces where they lodged us were large and well-carved, made of very fine stonework and premium wood. cedars. In the orchard and garden there was a diversity of trees and smells full of roses and flowers with many fruit trees and rose bushes with a pond of fresh water and another thing to see was how large canoes entered the orchards from the lagoon through the opening that had been made. , without jumping on the ground, everything was very decorated and brilliant with birds of many diversities and species.
I don't know what kind of history they teach in Spain, but I have always encountered many comments of this type or even worse, there were some that even claimed that the indigenous people did not know hygiene and they also came to teach it hahaha
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I’m sure most of what the spaniards wrote are lies.
That guy in that comment chain you show must be referring to a chronicle that Mexicas themselves wrote AFTER the attack of the Spanish soldiers and allies to their city. In the book “Vision de los Vencidos” there is a very similar paragraph which most surely is the source of that guy, however he is totally wrong. That paragraph is a reference of the suffering and horrors after the attacks and siege of Tenochtitlan, not the daily life in the city.
Unfortunately there is a lot of disinformation and wrong ideas of Mesoamerican civilizations. In my perception is just a way to validate and justify the cultural destruction and massacres the spanish soldiers made and how europeans “brought civilization to the new continent”.
Just adding to your source here, we can find the same paradise-like descriptions of the city in the Cortez’ Narrative letters to the king of Spain
The Black Legend reverberates into modern Spain which causes them to have an inferiority complex to the rest of Europe and causes them to want to justify the actions of their governments in the Americas. Ironically the Spanish were forced to compromised quite a bit the Mesoamerican nobles so they could never really rule with an iron fist. Hence why the majority of modern Mexico is mestizo in contrast to the U.S. who did in fact attempt to exterminate the native population.