Monumento a Álvaro Obregón

Coyoacán & San Ángel


This monument in La Bombilla park in San Ángel is the work of Mexican sculptor Ignacio Asúnsolo and dates from 1935 to commemorate the murder of President Álvaro Obregón in 1928 in a restaurant of the same name as the park.


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