Monument to Cuauhtémoc

Monument to Cuauhtémoc - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Monument to Cuauhtémoc is an 1887 monument dedicated to the last Mexica ruler (tlatoani) of Tenochtitlan Cuauhtémoc, located at the intersection of Avenida de los Insurgentes and Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City. It is the work of Francisco Jiménez and Miguel Noreña in the "neoindigenismo" (academic indigenismo style), and was proposed to promote the new government of Porfirio Díaz. Read more on Wikipedia

type: monument
date from: 1887

Source: en.wikipedia.org