Moctezuma 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...

San Lázaro

Metro San Lázaro

San Lázaro is a station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Venustiano Carranza borough of Mexico City. It lies along Lines 1 and B. The station was opened on 5 September 1969. The station was designed by Félix Candela and consists of interlocked hyperbolic paraboloidal or saddle roof...

Line 1

Mexico City Metro Line 1

Mexico City Metro Line 1 is one of the 16 metro lines built in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the first to be built, the identifying color is pink and runs through the city from west to east....

Balbuena

Metro Balbuena

Metro Balbuena is a station along Line 1 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Venustiano Carranza borough, to the northeast of the centre of Mexico City and serves the Colonia Jardin Balbuena and Colonia Moctezuma neighborhoods....

Metro Moctezuma 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 Line 1

Mexico City Metro Line 1

Mexico City Metro Line 1 is one of the 16 metro lines built in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the first to be built, the identifying color is pink and runs through the city from west to east....

 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 located in the Colonia Moctezuma and Colonia Balbuena neighborhoods of the Venustiano Carranza

Venustiano Carranza, D.F.

Venustiano Carranza is one of the 16 delegaciones of Mexico's Federal District. The borough was formed in 1970 when the center of Mexico City was subdivided into four boroughs...

 borough, to the northeast of the centre 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...

.

The station logo portrays a stylised drawing of the feathered headdress of Moctezuma II Xocoyotzin

Moctezuma II

Moctezuma , also known by a number of variant spellings including Montezuma, Moteuczoma, Motecuhzoma and referred to in full by early Nahuatl texts as Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, was the ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan, reigning from 1502 to 1520...

, the penultimate Aztec

Aztec

The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the late post-classic period in Mesoamerican chronology.Aztec is the...

 emperor, for whom the station is named. The station also boasts a display containing a reproduction of the feathered headdress, the original of which is currently held

Elgin Marbles

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 by the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna

Vienna

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, Austria

Austria

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. The station was opened on 5 September 1969.

This station runs under Avenida Ignacio Zaragoza. Back when trolleybus

Trolleybus

A trolleybus is an electric bus that draws its electricity from overhead wires using spring-loaded trolley poles. Two wires and poles are required to complete the electrical circuit...

 line "F" was still running this metro station connected with it, and the trolleybus ran between Nueva Atzacoalco neighbourhood, north of the city, and Villa Coapa, south of the city.