Monumento a la Revolución

The Monument to the Revolution 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 .
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: Mexico City monument
  • Also known as: “Monument to the Revolution” and “Monumento a la Revolucion”
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Museo Nacional de la Revolución and Frontón México.

Museum
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is a museum.

Sports venue
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is a sports venue, which is situated 150 metres northeast of Monumento a la Revolución.

Museum
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The is a Mexican national art museum devoted to European art, located in the Cuauhtémoc borough in . The museum is housed in the Palace of the Count of Buenavista, a neoclassical building at Puente de Alvarado No. is situated 350 metres northeast of Monumento a la Revolución.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Colonia Juárez and Zona Rosa.

Neighborhood
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is one of the better-known neighborhoods or colonias in the Cuauhtémoc borough of . The neighborhood is shaped like a long triangle with the boundaries: Paseo de la Reforma on the north, Avenida Chapultepec on the south, and Eje 1 Poniente on the east.

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is a business and entertainment district near the center of . It is one of the city's most touristy areas, filled with hotels, dance clubs, restaurants, bars and live bands.

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.

Monumento a la Revolución

Latitude
19.43617° or 19° 26′ 10″ north
Longitude
-99.15462° or 99° 9′ 17″ west
Inception
1938
Height
67 metres (220 feet)
Open location code
76F2CRPW+F5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 158032450
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q1389520
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Monumento a la Revolución” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نصب الثورة”
  • Armenian: “Հեղափոխության հուշարձան”
  • Chinese: “革命纪念塔”
  • Czech: “Památník revoluce v Mexiku”
  • Danish: “Monumento a la Revolución”
  • Dutch: “Monument voor de Revolutie”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نصب الثوره”
  • French: “monument à la Révolution”
  • French: “Monument à la Révolution”
  • German: “Monumento a la Revolución”
  • Greek: “Μνημείο της Επανάστασης”
  • Hungarian: “A mexikói forradalom emlékműve”
  • Japanese: “革命記念塔 (メキシコ)”
  • Japanese: “革命記念塔”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Monumento a la Revolución”
  • Norwegian: “Monumento a la Revolución”
  • Persian: “بنای یادبود انقلاب”
  • Persian: “یادمان انقلاب”
  • Polish: “Pomnik Rewolucji w Meksyku”
  • Polish: “Pomnik Rewolucji”
  • Portuguese: “Monumento a la Revolución”
  • Russian: “Памятник Революции”
  • Spanish: “Monumento a la Revolución”
  • Spanish: “Monumento Revolución”
  • Swedish: “Revolutionsmonumentet i Mexico City”
  • Turkish: “Devrim Anıtı”

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