The Historian · Bruno · Mexico City
Monumento a la Revolución
Díaz started this as his own legislative palace. The Revolution stopped it, then finished the shell as a mausoleum for the men who beat him. The irony is cast in bronze.
A vast copper-domed arch that began as Porfirio Díaz's unfinished parliament — repurposed into the tomb of the Revolution that overthrew him.
— Bruno, The Historian
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