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He Monument to the revolution It is definitely one of the buildings that your mind remembers when we talk about Mexico City. This urban icon has witnessed the modernization of the Mexican capital since 1910, the year in which Porfirio Díaz Place the first stone.
Initially intended to become a majestic Legislative Palacethis building had several misfortunes in its history that truncated its construction among them the outbreak of the Mexican revolution itself, the murder of Madero, among others.
(Read more: the history of the Angel of Independence.)
Unfinished and abandoned for decades, the central steel structure of the early twentieth century was reinterpreted as Monument to the revolution by the Mexican architect Carlos Obregón Santacilia In 1934. always surrounded by controversy, the Monument to the revolution It is currently a cultural space that they enjoy local and foreign equally. We reveal 11 interesting data on this enclosure.
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What would have been the monument to the revolution
- The neoclassical style project for the Federal Legislative Palace It was 14,700 square meters of construction. I was going to be the biggest in the world!
- The original project was one of the 1,419 works that Porfirio Díaz proposed to build to celebrate the Centenary of the Independence of Mexico In 1910.
- Until September 23, 1910, about 6.5 million pesos of the time had been invested in the construction of the structure of the Legislative Palace.
- After having reviewed more than 50 projects, the first place was awarded to Italian Pietro Paololo Quaglia who unfortunately died in 1899 before he could start the work.
- On September 23, 1910, to the architect Émile Bénard organized a spectacular act headed by President Porfirio Díaz for the celebration of placement of the first stone. During the ceremony a time capsule contained inside currencies, newspapers, photographs and documents of the time was buried. This capsule has not been found to date!
- Émile Bénard made great efforts to continue building work, however, the reallocation of resources to combat revolutionary wars caused the construction and the iron structure to be stopped and the iron structure fell into an abandonment of 20 years.