FRISA DE LOS FUNDADORES

Walk behind the Degollado, where a modern bronze frieze, the Frisa de los Fundadores (Frieze of the Founders) decorates its back side. Appropriately, a mere two blocks from the spot where the city was founded, the 68-foot sculpture shows Guadalajara’s cofounders facing each other on opposite sides of a big tree. Governor Cristóbal de Oñate strikes the tree with his sword, while Doña Beatriz de Hernández holds a fighting cock, symbolizing her gritty determination (and that of dozens of fellow settlers) that Guadalajara’s location should remain put.