Monumento a los niños heroes |
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Work of sculptor Ernesto Tamariz and architect Enrique Aragón E., was inaugurated in 1952 by President Miguel Alemán.
It is called Altar a la Patria in memory of the Military School Cadets who defended the Castle of Chapultepec against the American troops in 1847.
Every September 13, celebrates here a ceremony to remember six of the cadets that died during the defense of the castle: Juan de la Barrera, Juan Escutia, Francisco Márquez, Agustín Melgar, Fernando Montes de Oca and Vicente Suárez.
Truth or myth, the Heroic Cadets have been symbols of brave since the beggining. |
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Obelisco a los niños héroes |
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Facing the huehuete tree known as the Sargento.
In 1871 was created the Association of ex-cadets of Military School, and asked President Benito Juárez to declare September 13 as day of national mourning. |
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Monumento a las águilas caídas |
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Monumento a las Águilas caídas (Monument to Fallen Angels)
Facing the Ahuehuete tree known as El Sargento.
Emplacement with a series of steps as Roman tribune and a principal mural with a series of commemorative badges of 290 members of the Squadron 201 integrated by elements of the Mexican Air force that took part in the Second World war. |
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Monumento el Quijote |
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Calzada de los Artistas, close to Calzada de los Filosofos.
The square from 1922, designed by Sergio Andrés Fernández Vásquez. built with a metallic structure that allows to enter and to contemplate two small sculptures - of 65 and 55cm - of don Quijote and Sancho Panza in attitude of discussion.
The sculptures are works of José Maria Fernández Urbina. The Quijote has the face of Salvador Dalí, and Sancho Panza of Diego Rivera; each of the tiles that surround them has painted characters of the Quijote book made by the Sevillian ceramist Montalbán. |
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Monumento a los Poetas |
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Monument to Poets.
A roadway with sculptures along, it starts on Avenida Colegio Militar facing the Casa del Lago. We can find statues of mexican poets like Antonio Plaza, Manuel Acuña, Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Joaquin Fernandez de Lizaldi, Rafael Delgado, Manuel José Othón, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Ramón López Velarde y Salvador Díaz Mirón. In each column framed by beautiful gardens, there is the historical critique of each of them. The sculptures are worked in granite and placed on pedestals of quarry of 2.5 m high. |
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Monumento a Nezahualcóyotl |
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Monument to Nezahualcoyotl
The fountain or monument was inaugurated on September 15, 1956. This work of sculptor Luis Ortiz Monasterio covers an area of 1.250 m2 and it is designed in the shape of a square in whose center there is the sculpture of the famous pre-Hispanic poet, a piece of 9.20 m high, with ceremonial garbs worked in black stone on a pedestal that has the lines of an altar nahua. In the frontal part of the wall four shields are corresponding to the glifos of four places:
Chapultepec represented by a grasshopper on a hill; Texcoco, for poles of darts on a hill; Tenochtitlán, by a tunal on stones and, finally, Tlacopan, with a rockrose on a hill. The fountain has seven boards remembering the most important facts of the life of Nezahualcóyotl, master of Texcoco and big tlatoani of Tenochtitlán, from his birth in 1411 up to his death in 1472. |
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Fuente de las Ranas |
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Fuente de las Ranas (Frog´s Fountain)
Work of Antonio Lecaroz Jiménez (1922). It is formed by eight frog figures of bronze sorrounding a swan mounted on a turtle. The fountain is decorated by sevilian tiles. Until 1952 it was in the place where today the Monumento a los Niños Heroes is. It was restored by the teacher Gilberto Aceves Navarro. |
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Pabellón Coreano |
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Pabellón Coreano (Korean Pavilion)
Calzada del Molino del Rey and Paseo de la Reforma
It is a small pagoda inspired by the architectural korean school of the 8th century. It expresses friendship of korean people towards Mexico. |
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Fuente de Petróleos |
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Reforma and Periferico
Commemorates the petroleum expropriation of March 18, 1938 by a sculptural group work of Juan F. Olaguíbel, over a monument of Vicente Mendiola. It is formed by two superposed bowls and a vertical body, in his east side there are located eight allegorical figures, the main one a naked woman with the hair to the wind. The sculptures are made of bronze, the fountain of black enclosure and the vertical element of quarry. |
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Las Serpientes |
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Las Serpientes (The Snakes)
Four fountains that occupy most of the block immediate to La Feria. In this place there is also the Cárcamo and the Fountain of Tláloc. |
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Monumento a Copérnico |
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Opposite to the Natural History Museum
Statue of bronze made by the artist M. Welter, in honour of the fifth centenary of the birth of the scientist Nicolás Copérnico. Shown for the first time in 1973. |
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Las Ninfas |
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Las Ninfas ( The Nymphs)
Located on the way that leads to the Lago Mayor , close to Planeta Azul Park . It has two feminine figures of sculptor Francisco Zúñiga. It was placed in 1964. |
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Torre del Reloj |
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Torre del Reloj (Clock Tower)
In the west side of the Lincoln Park we can find the icon of the area. It is a building of Californian style that lodges a gallery of contemporary art named Torre del Reloj, managed by the Miguel Hidalgo Borough. |
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Monumento a Simón Bolivar |
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Monument to Simón Bolívar
Paseo de la Reforma
One of the first monuments in Polanco (1938), when the division was planned. The closeness to Reforma Avenue and a large number of museums makes this place a popular reference. |
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Cárcamo |
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Neri Vela Street
Turesday to Sunday, 10-17 h
Formed by a pavilion projected as a simple cubic volume that lodges a mural and presides the fountain, finished off by a translucent dome of half circle; also a porch in the frontal part of the building accentuates a similarity with the classic constructions; proposing a modern temple to honour the water.
The design is inside the nationalistic currents of the age with the inclusion of four heads of snake that finish off the top corners of the building. On the inside, the murals stand out, as well as the mechanisms of the floodgates that have stopped being used to protect the paintings.
The pictorial work of Diego Rivera reveres with images both the vital liquid and the Mexican, hard-working men and profesionists, that made possible the hydraulic works to provide the city of the fluid becoming of the River Lerma. |
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Monumento a Thomas G. Masaryk |
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Monument to Thomas G. Masaryk
Masaryk and Arquímedes
Monument to Thomas G. Masaryk, founder of the Czech People's Party and the first president of the Czech Republic. The sculpture was donated to the city of Mexico in October, 2000. |
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Monumento a Winston Churchill |
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Monument to Winston Churchill
Paseo de la Reforma and Arquimides
Sculpture in bronze placed on a base of buckets of concrete, that shows the British leader in a serious and determined gesture. |
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Monumento a Luis Donaldo Colosio |
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Monument to Luis Donaldo Colosio
Paseo de la Reforma and Anatole Franc
This piece in bronze was donated to the city by the Friends of Colosio in honour to Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician who was murdered during his campaign as candidate for the Presidency of the Republic in 1994. |
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