Panteón de San Fernando

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The San Fernando Pantheon (also known as Museo Panteón de San Fernando) is one of the oldest cemeteries in Mexico City that is preserved to this day.[1][2] It is one of the most representative examples of 19th century funerary architecture and art in Mexico, and it functioned between 1832 and 1872.[3] It is the final destination of the remains of several of the outstanding figures of 19th century Mexican history, and the most prominent are the remains of Presidents Benito Juárez , Miguel Miramón (later sent to the Puebla Cathedral) and General Ignacio Zaragoza, among many others.[4]

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  1. ^ Diaz, Gerardo (15 January 2020). "Panteón San Fernando". Relatos e Historias en México (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  2. ^ de la Garza Arregui, Bernardina (14 April 2016). "Turismo funerario: San Fernando, el panteón de los personajes ilustres". MXCity : Guía de la Ciudad de México (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  3. ^ Almaraz, Karla (28 June 2016). "Panteón de San Fernando: un cementerio convertido en museo". Máspormás (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  4. ^ Andrea Rodríguez. Note "Everyone dies to enter." Supplement "Primera Fila", Reforma newspaper, October 29, 2010, pp. 14–15.

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Coordinates: 19°26′20″N 99°08′52″W / 19.4390°N 99.1479°W / 19.4390; -99.1479


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