Monumento a los Niños Héroes

The Monumento a los Niños Héroes, officially Altar a la Patria, is a monument installed in the park of in , Mexico. It commemorates the Niños Héroes, six mostly teenage military cadets who were killed defending from the during the Battle of Chapultepec, one of the last major battles of the Mexican–American War, on 13 September 1847.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: Monument in Mexico City
  • Also known as: “Altar a la Patria”, “Monumento a los Ninos Heroes”, and “Monumento a los Niños Heroes”
  • Inscription: “A los defensores de la Patria 1846-1847”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Chapultepec and Museo de Arte Moderno.

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is principal park, "the green lung of the city". This hill has been important throughout the city's history as the perch of fortresses and palaces, and the manicured forest surrounding it now holds many of Mexico's greatest cultural treasures.

Museum
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The is a museum dedicated to modern Mexican art located in Park in . The museum is part of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura and provides exhibitions of national and international contemporary artists. is situated 150 metres north of Monumento a los Niños Héroes.

Museum
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The is a national museum of . It is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Mahatma Gandhi Street within Chapultepec Park in , the museum contains… is situated 1 km northwest of Monumento a los Niños Héroes.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Condesa and Little Seoul.

Neighborhood
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or La is an area in the borough of , south of Zona Rosa and 4 to 5 km west of the Zócalo, the city's main square.

Neighborhood
Pequeño Seúl is a Koreatown in Mexico City. Most of the city's Korean population lives in and around the Zona Rosa. According to the newspaper Reforma, there are at least 5,000 Koreans living in Zona Rosa and about 6,000 total in Colonia Juárez, the larger officially recognized neighborhood of which the Zona Rosa is a part of.

Quarter
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is a colonia or neighborhood in Delegación Miguel Hidalgo in . Its borders are: The colonia's streets carry the names of generals and governors of Mexico.

Monumento a los Niños Héroes

Latitude
19.42151° or 19° 25′ 18″ north
Longitude
-99.17929° or 99° 10′ 45″ west
Elevation
2,251 metres (7,385 feet)
Inception
September 27th, 1952
Open location code
76F2CRCC+J7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 55212777
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­monument
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6458979
Wiki­data ID
Q19381838
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In Other Languages

From Norwegian to Ukrainian—“Monumento a los Niños Héroes” goes by many names.
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Monumento a los Niños Héroes”
  • Norwegian: “Monumento a los Niños Héroes”
  • Slovenian: “Spomenik Niños Héroes”
  • Spanish: “Altar a la Patria”
  • Spanish: “Monumento a los Niños Héroes”
  • Ukrainian: “Монумент дітям-героям”

Localities in the Area

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