Source: WTL photograph taken in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City.
Comments: After visiting the park, I took this photo just before the sun was setting while I was returning to a hotel in the Zona Rosa. This grandiose and patriotic monument at the park's entrance is dedicated to the six Niños Héroes, whose story you can find embedded in the tenth image in the Chapultepec Slide Show (see: => Chapultepec #10). The full name of this monument (1952) is the Monumento a los Niños Héroes (Altar a la Patria) [Monument to the Boy Heroes (Altar to the Homeland)]. It is the work of the Ernesto Tamariz (sculptor) and Enrique Aragón E. (architect). Every year on September 13th a ceremony is held in which the names of the six boys are read. For Mexican national consciousness, the boys represent a moment in Mexican history and on-going Mexican national political myth.