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Bellas Artes

Metro Bellas Artes

Metro Bellas Artes is a station along Line 2 and Line 8 of the Mexico City Metro system. It is located in the Colonia Centro district of the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, on the junction of Avenida Juárez and Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas, on the eastern end of the Alameda Central, west of the...

Lagunilla

Metro Lagunilla

Lagunilla is a station along Line B of the Mexico City Metro located north of the center of Mexico City, near the famous market with the same name ....

Line B
Guerrero

Metro Guerrero

Metro Guerrero is a metro station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Colonia Guerrero neighborhood of Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, on the intersecion of Zarco street and Eje 1 Norte Mosqueta Avenue...

Metro Garibaldi, also known as Garibaldi/Lagunilla, is a station

Metro station

A metro station or subway station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines, they are multi-level....

 on the Mexico City Metro

Mexico City Metro

The Mexico City Metro , officially called Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, is a metro system that serves the metropolitan area of Mexico City...

. It is a transfer station, serving both Lines 8 and B. It is the northern terminus of Line 8.

Metro Garibaldi is located on the northern fringes of Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

's historical downtown district or Centro

Historic center of Mexico City

The historic center of Mexico City is also known as the "Centro" or "Centro Histórico." This neighborhood is focused on the Zócalo or main plaza in Mexico City and extends in all directions for a number of blocks with its farthest extent being west to the Alameda Central The Zocalo is the largest...

, it also serves Colonia Guerrero

Colonia Guerrero, Mexico City

Colonia Guerrero is a colonia of Mexico City located just north-northwest of the historic center. Its borders are formed by Ricardo Flores Magón to the north, Eje Central Lazaro Cardenas and Paseo de la Reforma to the east, Eje1 Poniente Guerrero to the west and Avenida Hidalgo to the south...

, and Colonia Morelos

Colonia Morelos

Colonia Morelos is a colonia located just north of the historic center of Mexico City in the Cuauhtémoc borough. It has been a poor area since Aztec times, with many residents today living in large tenements called vecindades. The area, particularly the Tepito neighborhood, is known for crime,...

. The station's logo depicts a guitar

Guitar

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 and a sarape. Plaza Garibaldi

Plaza Garibaldi

Plaza Garibaldi is located in the historic center of Mexico City, on Eje Central between historic Calle República de Honduras and Calle República de Peru, a few blocks north of the Palacio de Bellas Artes. The original name of this plaza was Plaza Santa Cecilia, but in 1910 it was renamed in...

 is a large square near the metro station which was named in honor of the son of Italian hero Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and fled Italy after a failed insurrection. Garibaldi took part in the War of the Farrapos and the Uruguayan Civil War leading the Italian Legion, and...

, it is famous for the many groups of Mariachi

Mariachi

Mariachi is a genre of music that originated in the State of Jalisco, in Mexico. It is an integration of stringed instruments highly influenced by the cultural impacts of the historical development of Western Mexico. Throughout the history of mariachi, musicians have experimented with brass, wind,...

 musicians who gather there and for the large numbers of visitors who come to eat, drink, and listen to music in the nearby cantina

Cantina

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Garibaldi's Line 8 platform first openined to passengers in July 1994 and the Line B connection started in December 1999.

Plans exist for Line 8 to be extended northwards from this station to Metro Indios Verdes

Metro Indios Verdes

Indios Verdes is a station on the Mexico City Metro. Indios Verdes, located in the northern reaches of Mexico City, is the current terminal station for the Metro's Line 3.Indios Verdes literally means "Green Indians"...

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