Candelaria (Logo of Metro Candelaria) 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...

Merced

Metro Merced

Merced is an underground station on Line 1 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Venustiano Carranza borough, slightly to the east of the centre of Mexico City. The station building was designed by Félix Candela, and it was opened on 5 September 1969.The station logo depicts a box with...

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....

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...

Morelos

Metro Morelos

Morelos is a station on the Mexico City Metro. It is locatedin Venustiano Carranza borough, in the north of Mexico City. The station logo depicts the profile of José María Morelos y Pavón, second instigator of the War of Independence of 1810...

Line 4
Fray Servando

Metro Fray Servando

Metro Fray Servando is a metro station along Line 4 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Venustiano Carranza borough of Mexico City....

Metro Candelaria is a station

Metro station

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 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 located in 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 east of downtown Mexico City

Mexico City

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. It lies along Lines 1 and 4.

The station logo depicts a swimming duck

Duck

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. Its name and logo come from the surrounding neighbourhood of La Candelaria de los Patos (the Spanish

Spanish language

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 word pato means "duck") where, only a few decades ago, lived many duck species that were bred and sold in a local market.

Metro Candelaria has a subsidiary name, Metro Palacio Legislativo ("Legislative Palace"), because of its proximity to the Palacio Legislativo de San Lázaro

Palacio Legislativo de San Lázaro

The Palacio Legislativo de San Lázaro is the headquarters of the Congress of Mexico. Lcated in Mexico City, the building was designed by Mexican architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez....

 used by the Chamber of Deputies

Chamber of Deputies of Mexico

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 (Cámara de diputados), the lower house of the Mexican Congress.

Candelaria is a transfer station, with 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....

 running underground and Line 4 on an elevated surface viaduct. The station also features an in-corridor cultural display. The Line 1 platform for the station was opened on 5 September 1969, and the Line 4 platform was opened on 29 August 1981. Service from Candeleria to Santa Anita

Metro Santa Anita

Metro Santa Anita is a station on the Mexico City Metro. Located in Mexico City's Iztacalco borough, the station is the current terminal of Line 4....

 started on 25 May 1982.

For many years, this station has had the only "Lost and Found" office in the entire Metro system. It also displays the architecture of Félix Candela

Félix Candela

Félix Candela Outeriño was a Spanish architect known for his significant role in the development of Mexican architecture and structural engineering. Candela’s major contribution to architecture was the development of thin shells made out of reinforced concrete...

, who designed the Candelaria station and also designed many buildings in Mexico, such as the 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...

 metro station and the famous Palacio de los Deportes

Palacio de los Deportes

Palacio de los Deportes is an indoor arena, located in Mexico City, Mexico, within the sports complex Magdalena Mixhuca Sports City, near the Mexico City International Airport and the Foro Sol, in which sports and artistic events are also celebrated. It is operated by Grupo CIE...

 which served as a venue during the 1968 Summer Olympics

1968 Summer Olympics

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