Revolución station
Metro · 2 Line 2
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The story behind the icon
The station image shows the silhouette of the Monument to the Mexican Revolution.
The monument was originally conceived in a classical French Renaissance style by the architect Emile Bernard, to house the Legislative Palace in the Porfirian era.
Construction began on 23 September 1910, and in 1912 the structure was abandoned, only the dome standing firm.
In 1932 the architect Carlos Obregón Santacilia proposed to the government that the structure be used to build a Monument to the Revolution. The proposal was approved, and sketches, projects and designs were begun, so that the building was carried on until it was fully completed in 1938.
The original structure of the dome was used, and at its top (63 metres up) the four sculptural groups were placed representing Independence, the Reform Laws, the Labour Laws and the Agrarian Laws, made by the sculptor Oliverio Martínez. The work is of chiluca stone.
Later the remains of Venustiano Carranza, Francisco I. Madero, Plutarco E. Calles and Lázaro Cárdenas were placed there in bronze urns.