Tacubaya station
Metro · 1 7 9 Line 1, Line 7 and Line 9
Lines and neighbouring stations
- 1Line 1Observatorio Tacubaya Juanacatlán
- 7Line 7Constituyentes Tacubaya San Pedro de los Pinos
- 9Line 9Terminus Tacubaya Patriotismo
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The story behind the icon
The station image represents the silhouette of a pitcher (a vessel for water). Tacubaya in Nahuatl means place where the water gathers. The origin of the place goes back to the Chichimecs, in 450 AD; by 1276 the Mexica arrived and remained on the site until 1279, when they returned to Chapultepec.
In its beginnings it was called Acozcomac, place where the water gathers. The Mexica named it Atlalcuihaya and, following the founding of the former convent of San Diego, it was called San José de Tacubaya. In 1861 Benito Juárez named it Tacubaya de los Mártires, in memory of the victims of 11 April 1859.
Tacubaya ceased to be a suburb and joined the process of modernisation, for the first tall building in the country's capital was raised there, the Ermita complex, in an architectural style that was avant-garde at the time. Other buildings were later built, such as El Jardín, which created a different atmosphere.