Palacio de Bellas Artes in Alameda, Mexico City - stock photo

Bellas Artes Palace (beautiful arts) in Alameda plaza in Mexico City, this is the national arts palace in Mexico city is a very famous landmark in the interior has famous murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and others, famous Mexican painters, and today is a opera house. The building initial design and construction by Italian architect Adamo Boari in 1904, but complications stopped all work in 1913. Construction resumed in 1932 under Mexican architect Federico Mariscal and was completed in 1934. The exterior of the building is primarily Neoclassical and Art Nouveau and the interior is Art Deco. We see the detail​ of the sculpture that is on top of the main dome of Bellas Artes Palace. What we see is a bronze sculpture of four women, top of it has a globe and on top an eagle with a snake resembling​ the Mexican national symbol.