From the muse-love of Frida and Diego to the volcano that is Popocatépetl watching over Iztaccíhuatl, Mexico holds some of the most intense and visitable love stories on earth.
From the muse-love of Frida and Diego to the volcano that is Popocatépetl watching over Iztaccíhuatl, Mexico holds some of the most intense and visitable love stories on earth.
The elephant and the dove
The two great artists of post-revolutionary Mexico, bound by art and politics and divided by infidelity, who loved and wounded each other until Frida's death.
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The warrior who became a volcano
The warrior sent to war who receives a false report of his death; the princess dies of grief and he watches over her body forever. The two become Mexico's twin volcanoes.
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The legend of betrayed love
The woman who, betrayed by her lover, drowns her children and herself and wanders weeping "Oh, my children!": the legend of love turned to damnation that all of Latin America knows.
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The ambition that killed love
The beautiful, ambitious Rubí loves the doctor Alejandro but abandons him to marry for money: the most iconic antiheroine of the Mexican telenovela, undone by her own ambition.
Read the storyFrom poverty to revenge for love
The humble Marimar, humiliated by the wealthy family of her beloved Sergio, returns as a powerful woman to win him back: the most-watched Cinderella fantasy of the 1990s.
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"María Bonita", an eternal bolero
The greatest diva of Mexican cinema and the bolero composer who adored her: though the marriage was brief, he dedicated "María Bonita" to her, one of the most famous love songs in Spanish.
Read the storyThe revolutionary love that fell on a Mexico City street
The Italian photographer of post-revolutionary Mexico and the young exiled Cuban student leader: they loved for a few months within Frida and Diego's circle, until Mella was shot dead while walking arm in arm with her in the open street.
Read the storySome of the greatest are Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera, Popocatépetl & Iztaccíhuatl, La Llorona.