Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #11 in Mexico City, Mexico

The Casa de Carranza Museum is located in the Colonia Cuauhtémoc of Mexico City, Mexico. The museum is named after President Venustiano Carranza who lived there for the last six months of his life and tells the story of the Mexican Revolution focusing on the part related to Carranza, the causes of his confrontation with Álvaro Obregón and the betrayal of Victoriano Huerta.

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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", and was proposed to promote the new government of Porfirio Díaz.

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The Monument to Christopher Columbus is a statue by French sculptor Charles Cordier first dedicated in 1877. It was originally located on a major traffic roundabout along Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, and was removed on 10 October 2020 in advance of protests.

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The Monument to the Revolution is a memorial arch commemorating the Mexican Revolution. It is located in the Plaza de la República, near the heart of the major thoroughfares Paseo de la Reforma and Avenida de los Insurgentes in downtown Mexico City. The monument is considered the tallest memorial arch in the world, standing 67 metres (220 ft) in height.

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The Museo Nacional de San Carlos is a Mexican national art museum devoted to European art, located in the Cuauhtémoc borough in Mexico City. The museum is housed in the Palace of the Count of Buenavista, a neoclassical building at Puente de Alvarado No. 50, Colonia Tabacalera, Mexico City. It contains works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Parmigianino, Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Auguste Rodin and other well-known European painters and sculptors.

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The Temple of San Fernando is a Catholic temple located in the Guerrero neighborhood, next to the cemetery of the same name. He was part of the Apostolic College of Propaganda Fide of San Fernando of the Franciscan Order, where the missionaries who participated in the evangelization of New Spain were trained.

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The Museo Universitario del Chopo is located at Doctor Enrique González Martínez Street in the Colonia Santa María la Ribera of Mexico City. It has collections in contemporary art, and is part of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

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Biblioteca Vasconcelos, also known as the Megabiblioteca by the press, is a library in the Buenavista neighborhood of Mexico City. It is dedicated to José Vasconcelos, the philosopher and former president of the National Library of Mexico. The library is spread across 38,000 square metres, and had an initial planned cost of 954 million pesos. The Congress of Mexico proposed plans to reduce the budget of 2006 that included cuts for all three branches of government., but the National Action Party (PAN) presented an alternate budget that preserved funds for Enciclomedia and the Vasconcelos Library.

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