Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Mexico City

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The Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres in Mexico City is a monumental section of the Civil Pantheon where Mexico honors and inters some of its most distinguished national figures.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cemetery section
monument
national pantheon
access open to the public
burialPlaceFor Mexican artists
Mexican military leaders
Mexican presidents
Mexican scientists
Mexican social activists
Mexican writers
commemorates distinguished figures in Mexican history
country Mexico
criteriaForInclusion outstanding contribution to Mexico in arts, sciences, politics, or social causes
foundedBy Benito Juárez (policy initiative)
hasArchitecturalStyle monumental funerary architecture
hasFormerName Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres
hasGenderInclusiveRenaming name changed from masculine plural to gender-neutral plural
hasOfficialName Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres
hasTypeOfBurial cenotaphs
mausoleums
tombs
heritageDesignation national monument of Mexico
inception 1872
isPartOf Panteón Civil de Dolores
linked to: Panteón de Dolores
languageOfName Spanish
locatedIn Mexico City
Panteón Civil de Dolores
linked to: Panteón de Dolores
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City
locatedInProtectedArea Bosque de Chapultepec (vicinity)
maintainedBy Government of Mexico
Secretaría de Gobernación (Mexico)
notablePersonBuried Amado Nervo
Benito Juárez
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Diego Rivera
Francisco González Bocanegra
Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
Ignacio Zaragoza (remains transferred; commemorated)
José Clemente Orozco
Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (cenotaph or remains, depending on period)
Manuel M. Ponce
linked to: Manuel Ponce

Plutarco Elías Calles
Rosario Castellanos
Venustiano Carranza
ownedBy Federal government of Mexico
purpose burial of notable national figures
to honor distinguished Mexican persons
significance principal national pantheon of Mexico
usedFor official ceremonies
state commemorations

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David Alfaro Siqueiros burialPlace Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Mexico City
Diego Rivera burialPlace Rotunda of Illustrious Persons, Mexico City
linked to: Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Mexico City
Ignacio López Rayón burialPlace Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Mexico City
Justo Sierra burialPlace Rotunda of Illustrious Persons, Mexico City
linked to: Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Mexico City
Ricardo Flores Magón burialPlace Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Mexico City
Manuel González Flores buriedAt Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Mexico City
José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros placeOfBurial Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Mexico City
subject linked to: José de Jesús
José Peón Contreras burialPlace Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Mexico City