Source: WTL digital photograph taken at this site in Mexico City in 2007.
Notes: We shall begin our walk to the MNA on the twelve km-long Paseo de la Reforma, which is Mexico City's version of Paris's Champs-Élysées or New York City's Park Avenue or 5th Avenue. Set against the backdrop of a major bank skyscraper (HSBC) on the Paseo de la Reforma, here you see a monument called "El Ángel" (the angel). Notable in Mexico City's prosperous neighborhoods like those that border the Paseo de la Reforma (especially the still up-scale Zona Rosa), are public squares, traffic circles, major architecture, monuments, and statues. Among those that are found along this major boulevard are monuments to the Aztec hero Cuauhtémoc and Columbus and the fountain of the Greek goddess Diana. The column you see here is the Columna de la Independencia (Independence Column). It is crowned with a golden statue of the Winged Victory. However, the statue is commonly called "El Ángel". It was erected by Antonio Rivas Mercado in 1910, and it commemorates the war of independence against Spain (1810-1821). Monuments and statues are a standard feature of Latin American humanities.