Mexico? Or Spain? Italy?

Don't worry, I won't keep you in suspense. It's a rooftop panorama of Valle de Bravo, one of the favorite weekend destinations for well-heeled residents of Mexico City. As the name suggests, it sits in a valley by the shores of a man-made lake. This is the view over the center of the town, which of course is characterized by the spires of a colonial-era church alongside the plaza.

The buildings in this part of town mainly have sloping red clay tile roofs, giving the impression almost of an Italian or Spanish village. Of course, the mega-houses and villas arranged along the shoreline suggest, well, any wealthy weekend retreat town in any part of the world. Valle is a wonderful place for sailing and a few of the "extreme sports" involving wheels, mud, and the thrill of potential bone fractures. I prefer the sailing myself. You can always bang your head on the boom if scars and contusions are an essential part of a weekend. 

I stitched six photos together in Photoshop, did a little curves adjustment, and took the result back to Lightroom for final retouching. Taken with my 40D - sadly without a tripod - at 24mm, f/9 and 1/160 sec.