Tequila: Symbol of Mexico

From this lookout, Tequila appears as a city of regular streets whose name, since the nineteenth century, has been given to Mexico’s emblematic drink. Around 1840, the American sailor Maxwell Wood saw the city below with its houses and church domes among the trees, and found its buildings beautiful and its streets orderly. In 1875, another account likened Tequila, reclining at the foot of a high mountain, to a bird’s nest among the rocks, sheltered from the winds. From that height, its streets and plazas stood out clearly, the crowd stirred below, and the murmur of people in the streets rose like the distant buzzing of bees. Columns of smoke rose everywhere from the distilleries, the principal source of wealth in Tequila, sending out enormous quantities of vapor. The distinctive panorama of this industrial enclave has remained much the same to the present.

Jalisco · Mexico