Panteón de Dolores

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Panteón de Dolores is Mexico City’s largest and most historically significant public cemetery, known for housing the Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres where many of the nation’s most prominent figures are buried.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cemetery
historical site
public cemetery
alsoKnownAs Panteón de Dolores
surface form: Panteón Civil de Dolores
burialCustomsObserved Catholic funerary rites
Day of the Dead visits
contains graves of notable Mexican artists
graves of notable Mexican military figures
graves of notable Mexican politicians
graves of notable Mexican public servants
graves of notable Mexican scientists
graves of notable Mexican writers
country Mexico
foundedBy Juan Manuel Benfield
hasAccess public
hasApproximateArea over 200 hectares (approximate, large-scale cemetery)
hasBurialType individual graves
mausoleums
hasCoordinateLocation 19.404° N, 99.200° W (approximate)
hasCulturalSignificance site of commemorations on national holidays
symbolic space for Mexican national memory
hasNameInLanguage Panteón de Dolores (es)
hasNearbyPublicTransport Observatorio metro station (approximate)
hasPart Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres
hasReligion predominantly Roman Catholic burials
hasUse burial place for Mexico’s prominent figures
public burial ground
heritageStatus historical cemetery of national importance
inception 1875
languageOfPlace Spanish
locatedIn Mexico City
west of Mexico City
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Alcaldía Miguel Hidalgo
locatedInNeighborhood Observatorio
locatedInTimeZone America/Mexico_City
locatedNear Bosque de Chapultepec
Periférico ring road
surface form: Periférico highway
notableSection Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres
areas for civil society figures
areas for military burials
opened 1875
operatedBy Government of Mexico City
ownedBy Government of Mexico City
partOf Valley of Mexico
significance largest public cemetery in Mexico City
one of the most historically important cemeteries in Mexico
terrainFeature urban cemetery

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Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres locatedIn Panteón de Dolores
Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres partOf Panteón de Dolores
this entity surface form: Panteón Civil de Dolores complex
Tina Modotti burialPlace Panteón de Dolores
Jerez de García Salinas hasLandmark Panteón de Dolores
Panteón de Dolores alsoKnownAs Panteón de Dolores
this entity surface form: Panteón Civil de Dolores