Plaza de la República station
Metrobús · 1 4S Line 1 and Line 4S San Lazaro
Lines and neighbouring stations
- 1Line 1Revolución Plaza de la República Reforma
- 4S Line 4S San LazaroMéxico Tenochtitlan Plaza de la República Plaza de la República
The story behind the icon
Located on Avenida de los Insurgentes, in the Tabacalera neighbourhood, it takes its name from the Plaza de la República, a site revitalised and remodelled in 2010 as part of the commemoration of the hundred years of the Mexican Revolution, which comprises the Monument to the Revolution as well as the National Museum of the Revolution.
The station icon is the aerial view of that place.
An architectural work and mausoleum dedicated to the commemoration of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. It is the work of the Mexican architect Carlos Obregón Santacilia, who took the structure of the Hall of the Lost Steps of the ill-fated Legislative Palace. It was completed in 1938. On 4 February 1936 a decree was issued granting the monument the function of a funerary precinct. Crypts were fitted into the columns where the remains of Venustiano Carranza, Francisco I. Madero, Plutarco Elías Calles, Lázaro Cárdenas and Francisco Villa would rest.