Lovingly called 'El Ángel', the independence monument was completed on September 16, 1910 and subsequently restored in 1958. The 36 metre (118 foot) high column is topped by a 6.7 metre (22 foot) statue of Nike, the Greek goddess of Victory and stands as a commemoration to the centennial of the beginning of Mexico's War of Independence, which ended the rule of Spain in 1821.
Lovingly called 'El Ángel', the independence monument was completed on September 16, 1910 and subsequently restored in 1958. The 36 metre (118 foot) high column is topped by a 6.7 metre (22 foot) statue of Nike, the Greek goddess of Victory and stands as a commemoration to the centennial of the beginning of Mexico's War of Independence, which ended the rule of Spain in 1821.