Palacio de Bellas Artes
Construction began in 1904 and finished in 1934. The best known mural inside is on the 3rd floor. It is the mural painted by Diego Rivera commissioned by John D Rockefeller that was dismissed because the Americans found a soviet flag and portrait of Lenin in the foreground. The mexican gov't asked Rivera to recreate the work here: the result, completed in 1934, was "El Hombre, Controlador del Universo" a marxist vision that depicts a white man controlling a massive industrial apparatus.
The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more 
