Colegio Militar station
Metro · 2 Line 2
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The story behind the icon
The station silhouette is the badge of the Military College.
The Military College is a Mexican institution that trains military cadets for the various branches of the Army. It was founded in 1822.
An important precedent contributing to its creation is the consummation of National Independence. It was installed in what is the building of the Inquisition, at the corner formed today by the streets of Brasil and Venezuela, in the centre of Mexico City.
While Venustiano Carranza was president of the Republic, the Military College was reopened in the old barrio of San Jacinto, in Popotla, on 5 February 1920, continuing the tradition and holding the responsibility of training the Army's commissioned officers.
As the years passed, the growth of the city encroached heavily on the surroundings of this school, preventing it from carrying out many of its varied educational and military training activities to their full extent, and forcing its students to perform exercises and work on open ground far from the main site.
On 13 September 1976 the present military educational complex was inaugurated, an area bearing the name "Campo Militar No. 1-C" and lying near the towns of San Pedro Mártir, San Andrés Totoltepec and Santiago Tepalcatlalpan.
It meets the requirements of space, architecture, closeness to suitable transport links and adjoining areas that allow tactical military exercises to be practised.