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The city of Puebla was founded by the Spanish in 1531 on an important trade route connecting Mexico City and Veracruz, on the foot of the Popocatepetl volcano. The city has a Renaissance grid plan and has preserved numerous monumental Baroque buildings, including the cathedral (pictured), the Convent Church of San Francisco , the Biblioteca ...
Historic center of Mexico City (2 C, 99 P) M. Monuments and memorials in Mexico City (45 P) S. Six Flags México (15 P, 2 F) Pages in category "Landmarks in Mexico City"
Monument to Enrico Martínez; Monument to Lázaro Cárdenas; Monument to Pope John Paul II; Monumento a la Raza (Mexico City) Monumento a la Revolución; Monumento a los Indios Verdes; Monumento a los Niños Héroes; Monumento de la Fundación de México-Tenochtitlan; Mother's Monument; Museo Cabeza de Juárez; Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Monument ...
Statue of Manuel Ojinaga in 2012. There are many statues installed along Paseo de la Reforma, in Mexico City, Mexico.Major monuments include the Angel of Independence, the Diana the Huntress Fountain, the Monument to Christopher Columbus, and the Monument to Cuauhtémoc.
The historic center of Mexico City (Spanish: Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México), also known as the Centro or Centro Histórico, is the central neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico, focused on the Zócalo (or main plaza) and extending in all directions for a number of blocks, with its farthest extent being west to the Alameda Central. [2]
Alongside the Mexico Pavilion at the 1889 Paris exhibition by Antonio Anza, the monument was part of a failed search for a purely Mexican artistic style. [ 4 ] The monument to Cuauhtémoc was created on the initiative of Vicente Riva Palacio who proposed to promote the " Porfiriato " regime of president Porfirio Díaz with a monument to honour ...
Other monuments and memorials in Mexico commemorate those lost in the Mexican side of the conflict, particularly the Niños Héroes, seven army cadets who lost their lives defending Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City. There are other monuments in Mexico City, and in Monterrey, Nogales, Puebla, San Miguel de Cozumel, and Toluca de Lerdo.
The Museo Nacional de las Culturas (MNC; National Museum of Cultures) is a national museum in Mexico City dedicated to education about the world's cultures, both past and present. It is housed in a colonial-era building that used to be the mint for making coins.