Ciudad Universitaria: World Heritage Site
By unanimous vote, the Ciudad Universitaria campus of the UNAM was included to the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites at its convention held in New Zeeland on June 28, 2007, and it was officially enrolled on the World Heritage Site ledger on July 2, 2007. The design and construction of the Central University City Campus is the work of Mexican architects and workers, who from the perspective of the European rationalist school employ lines and materials of a nationalistic nature to achieve a unified, functional and aesthetic result that is enhanced by major works by leading artists of the Mexican muralist movement, including Edmundo O’Gorman, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera and José Chávez Morado, whose contributions are absolutely singular and inimitable. CU is situated on a 7,000+ year-old igneous flow known as the “Pedregal” in the south of Mexico City. Before moving to the new CU campus, the university was installed in diverse buildings in downtown Mexico City.
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