Built in 1906, the Benito Juárez Hemicycle celebrates the Mexican lawyer and former president of Mexico, who is revered as a major Mexican hero whose birthday (March 21) is a national public and patriotic holiday in Mexico and is the only individual Mexican so honored.
I thought the twelve Doric semicircular columns in the Neoclassical style had a strong Greek influence, which I wasn't expecting in Mexico. — @ Mexico City, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Built in 1906, the Benito Juárez Hemicycle celebrates the Mexican lawyer and former president of Mexico, who is revered as a major Mexican hero whose birthday (March 21) is a national public and patriotic holiday in Mexico and is the only individual Mexican so honored.
I thought the twelve Doric semicircular columns in the Neoclassical style had a strong Greek influence, which I wasn't expecting in Mexico. — @ Mexico City, Ciudad de México, Mexico