Monuments, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Parks, Meeting places
Prol. Xicoténcatl s/n, Col. San Diego Churubusco. 04120, Coyoacán
What it commemorates. General Pedro María Anaya, who defended the Churubusco convent against the United States army on 20 August 1847, during the war that cost Mexico half its territory. When the position fell and the American commander demanded his ammunition, Anaya is said to have answered: "If I had any ammunition, you would not be here." The line is one of the few from that war that every Mexican schoolchild knows, and the monument stands where it was spoken.
What is there. An open monument on Prolongación Xicoténcatl in San Diego Churubusco, accessible at any hour and free, set in green space used by the neighbourhood. It takes five minutes; what makes the trip worthwhile is what is next to it.
Combine it with. The National Museum of Interventions, housed in the very convent Anaya defended, which tells the story of every foreign intervention in Mexico from the same ground. Metro General Anaya on Line 2 —named after him— is a short walk, and the centre of Coyoacán is about fifteen minutes away.
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