For three years I lived two lives, shuttling between corporate boardrooms over the Dallas skyline and rowdy street rallies in colonial zocalos.
Here, the town square is triangular (space is at a premium) and called the Jardín instead of the more common zocalo or plaza mayor.
In the town zocalo was a group of Indian women with their children.
This 12-hour DVD projection, shown on a screen suspended in the middle of the gallery, records a day in the life of Mexico City's central square, or zocalo.
More than 500 people - most in their teens and early 20s, nearly all indigenous - marched out of the zocalo, or city center.
Origin
Spanish.
Definition of zocalo in US English:
zocalo
nounˈsōkəˌlō
(in Mexico) a public square or plaza.
Example sentencesExamples
More than 500 people - most in their teens and early 20s, nearly all indigenous - marched out of the zocalo, or city center.
This 12-hour DVD projection, shown on a screen suspended in the middle of the gallery, records a day in the life of Mexico City's central square, or zocalo.
In the town zocalo was a group of Indian women with their children.
Here, the town square is triangular (space is at a premium) and called the Jardín instead of the more common zocalo or plaza mayor.
For three years I lived two lives, shuttling between corporate boardrooms over the Dallas skyline and rowdy street rallies in colonial zocalos.