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Chapultepec Castle (Spanish: Castillo de Chapultepec) is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City's Chapultepec park. The name Chapultepec is the Nahuatl word chapoltepēc which means "on the hill of the grasshopper". It is located at the entrance to Chapultepec park, at a height of 2,325 metres (7,628 ft) above sea level. [1]
The Obelisco a los Niños Héroes is a monument installed in Chapultepec, Mexico City. The cenotaph was created in 1881 by architect Ramón Rodríguez Arangoity, one of the cadets captured in the Battle of Chapultepec. [1] [2] The marble cenotaph was a typical nineteenth-century monument.
The six cadets are honored by an imposing monument made of Carrara marble by architect Enrique Aragón and sculptor Ernesto Tamariz at the entrance to Chapultepec Park (1952). [2] This semicircular monument with six columns, placed at what was the end of the Paseo de la Reforma , a major thoroughfare leading from the central square (Zócalo) to ...
Los Niños Héroes, painted in Chapultepec Castle in 1967, honors the child heroes who died in the Battle of Chapultepec during the Mexican–American War. The mural depicts a Mexican military cadet jumping from the tower of Chapultepec Castle in 1847 wrapped in the Mexican flag in order to prevent its capture by the U.S. military forces. [1]
David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros; December 29, 1896 – January 6, 1974) was a Mexican social realist painter, best known for his large public murals using the latest in equipment, materials and technique.
El Asalto al Castillo de Chapultepec y los Niños Héroes. Mexico City: Colección Conciencia Cívica Nacional 1983. [ISBN missing] Fernández del Castillo, Antonio. Cien años de la epopeya 1847–1947. Mexico City 1947. Plasencia de la Parra, Enrique. "Conmemoración de la hazaña épica de los niños héroes: su origen, desarrollo, y ...
In 2010, the second section of the park underwent rehabilitation, funded in part by a private charity group called Probosque de Chapultepec. Most of the work was done on the jogging track, the Tlaloc Fountain, the Cárcamo de Dolores building, the El agua: origen de la vida mural, and the construction of an agora. These works together form the ...
A mural commission in Pátzcuaro, Michoacan resulted in the huge "La historia de Michoacán" in the Biblioteca Pública Gertrudis Bocanegra in a former church. [22] He painted the murals in the Independence Room in Mexico City's Chapultepec Castle , and the huge murals of his own 1952 Central Library of the National Autonomous University of ...