Mexico City was baptized by the English traveler Charles La Trobe as the City of Palaces in 1834.
"Look at its works: the monumental aqueducts, churches, roads and the luxurious City of Palaces". This is what the English traveler
Charles Joseph La Trobe (1801-1875) said in "The Rambler in Mexico", the book he wrote after visit the city in the 19th century.
The term continued to be used with great honor, since in the historical downtown we can still find several buildings worthy of admiration.
The Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) is one of the most beautiful buildings in Mexico City. The construction was started (in 1904) towards the end of Porfirio Diaz's term of office for the celebration of the centennial of the beginning of Mexico's Independence; however, it was not completed and inaugurated until September 29th, 1934.
The architectural project was the work of Mexican engineer Gonzalo Garita and Italian architect Adamo Boari.
With the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, the pace of the work slowed down until it was finally suspended in 1916, Boari left Mexico and left in the country more than four thousand documents for the continuation of the project.
Due to the difference in the beginning and construction periods and the interruptions caused by the Revolution, the palace has several architectural styles, predominantly art nouveau on the outside and art deco on the inside.
In the Main Hall of the "Palacio de Bellas Artes" is one of the most emblematic figures, the Tiffany Curtain, a work in opalescent crystals, showing the mountainous landscape surrounding the Valley of Mexico.
Fun fact.
A rather curious fact. A tiktoker discovered that the architectures of Bellas Artes and the Torre Latinoamericana coincide from a certain perspective. The Torre Latinoamericana (on the right side) coincides with one of the edges of the Palacio de Bellas Artes. The Latinoamericana Tower began construction in 1948 and it is a mystery if the architect Augusto H. Alvarrz designed it this way or it is pure coincidence.