Mazatlán developer Isaac Urquijo announces the publication of a historical chronicle of the building, edited by Laura Medina, founder of La Casa del Caracol. The book compiles two years of original research on the property, building upon the work of decades of chroniclers and historians who have documented the German history of Mazatlán. The Lizárraga family will donate a clarinet to the project’s museum collection, in memory of the first instrument that Don Cruz Lizárraga purchased at the German Haberdashery in 1937.
Flor del Pacífico today announces the formal start of the restoration of Casa Alemana—a property with over 180 years of history, considered among the three oldest in Mazatlán—along with the publication of a historical chronicle of the building, its inhabitants, and its role in the commercial, cultural, and musical history of the port.
Casa Alemana is a historical monument in downtown Mazatlán, listed within the port’s Historic Monuments Zone, declared a national cultural heritage site by presidential decree published in the Official Gazette of the Federation on March 12, 2001. Located on the northwest corner of Belisario Domínguez and Mariano Escobedo streets, for nearly a century—from 1848 to 1942—it was the most cosmopolitan showcase on the Mexican Pacific coast: a Hanseatic trading house that combined heavy hardware, European musical instruments, fine porcelain, and the German consulate under one roof.
The book, edited by Laura Medina, founder and director of La Casa del Caracol—a bookstore in Mazatlán’s Historic Center that has been a leading voice in Sinaloa’s literary scene since 2004 and a renowned cultural promoter in the port—compiles two years of her own documentary research on the building, building upon the work of decades of chroniclers and historians who have documented German Mazatlán.
“From the very conception of the Casa Alemana project, we assumed the responsibility of returning one of Mazatlán’s most important corners to us and telling its story well. Integrating an abandoned building into contemporary life, while celebrating its past.”
—Isaac Urquijo, founder of Flor del Pacífico
The publication of this book stems from a clear conviction: the documentary work behind Casa Alemana is not an addendum to the real estate project; it is a cultural product in itself, with its own public purpose. As such, it could not be published by a corporate imprint. Therefore, the book is published in collaboration with Laura Medina and La Casa del Caracol—a publishing house with literary roots in the Historic Center, which has contributed to the development of readers in Mazatlán for two decades.
Source: es-us.finanzas.yahoo
