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MONUMENT OF REVOLUTION
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Among the most iconic symbols of Mexico City, the Monument to the Mexican Revolution is almost as complex and ambiguous as the historical event it’s today meant to commemorate. An unfinished architectural work, it was begun as the dome of a Palace for the Mexican Federal Legislature. Porfirio Diaz laid the first stone in 1910 (although the project had been planned since 1897). Diaz’s time remaining was very short though. He was ousted the following year after more than 31 years of near absolute power controlling the Mexican state.

Although the newly elected Francisco Madero funded the work until 1913, with Madero’s assassination and the beginnings of the second and most violent phase of the revolution now begun in earnest, the project languished. Although the revolution was more or less concluded by 1920, changes were so profound as to delay any resumption of the project for a further 13 years.

Monument of Revolution ✨