The Spanish charge the layout of the city to one of the top planners of the Empire: Alonso Garcia Bravo, architect of Mexico City and Veracruz. Bravo Garcia drew the city line, from the creation of a central square or Zocalo, aligned according to the cardinal points and established according to symbology simple: on one side of the square, on the place of the dead to the Aztecs may lift the Cathedral of other municipal buildings, the foundations of civil power. Thus, it was thought, the square radiate throughout the city the balance between the earthly and the sacred, the Church and the civil power. The city flourished during the viceroyalty, was taken by Morelos in 1812, was held by the forces of General Bazaine was born in 1864 and the guerrilla uprising organized by Porfirio Diaz, Governor of the State. Except these episodes, Oaxaca has lived away from any military history. The Spanish designed without walls, without defenses, confident that the magic power of the Zocalo protect her from all evil, as indeed has been. • Pottery Pottery techniques has a long tradition in the state of Oaxaca, including Pottery makers specializing in genuine two techniques: the green glazed pottery of Atzompa and San Bartolo Coyotepec black. The technique of manufacturing green glazed is completely original, based on a pattern that is molded piece, so big that sometimes you can not turn the wheel. The black mud is extracted from a place near the town of San Bartolo Coyotepec. The mud has special properties that, once baked appear in color, completely black, and its sound, highly crystalline, the two characteristics of this ceramic worked with completely indigenous forms and styles. Santa Maria Atzompa is 8 kilometers (4.98 miles) from the city of Oaxaca on the road to Monte Alban and San Bartolo Coyotepec is south of Oaxaca, about 12 kilometers (7.46 miles) on highway 175.