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On October 18, 1825, the Republic of Mexico officially declared September 16 its national Independence Day (Dia de la Independencia). Mexican Independence day, also referred to as Dieciséis de septiembre , is celebrated from the evening of September 15 with a re-creation of the Grito de Dolores by all executive office-holders (from the ...
Camino Real, or the Royal Inland Route, was a trade route for silver extracted from the mines in Mexico and mercury imported from Europe. It was active from the mid-16th to the 19th centuries and stretched over 2,600 km (1,600 mi) from north of Mexico City to Santa Fe in today's New Mexico. This serial site comprises the Mexican part of the ...
Originally, nine steps led to the base, but due to the sinking of the ground, an ongoing problem in Mexico City, fourteen more steps have been added. [1] On the main face of the base facing downtown Mexico City, an inscription reads La Nación a los Héroes de la Independencia ("The Nation to the Heroes of Independence"). In front of this ...
The Monument to the Revolution (Spanish: Monumento a la Revolución) is a memorial arch commemorating the Mexican Revolution. It is located in the Plaza de la República, near the heart of the major thoroughfares Paseo de la Reforma and Avenida de los Insurgentes in downtown Mexico City.
Enciclopedia temática de la Delegación Cuauhtémoc (in Spanish). Mexico City: Comercializadora de Impresiones Selectas. OCLC 760692763. Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio (1996). Mexico at the World's Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation. Los Angeles, California: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-30107-8.
Their temple, dedicated to the god Tezcatlipoca, lies under the current Museo de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público to the south of the Templo Mayor. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Calmecac was a residence hall for priests and a school for future priests, administrators and politicians, where they studied theology, literature, history and astronomy.
This story suggests the people of Casas Grandes joined the Pueblos on the Rio Grande in New Mexico. [24] Other theories are that the Casas Grandes people migrated west to Sonora and joined or became the Opata whom the Spaniards found in the mid 16th century living in "statelets," small but well-organized city states. It is also possible that ...
The banderas monumentales (Spanish for "monumental flags") are a collection of tall flagpoles containing large flags of Mexico located throughout Mexico. They are part of a program started in 1999 under President Ernesto Zedillo that is currently administered by the Secretariat of National Defense ( Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional ).