University town Photo: University city

Campus State Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the largest number of University students in North and South America, is located in the South of the Mexican capital.

Built in the style of modernism of the last century, he reminds, indeed, a separate city and is considered a separate area of the city. It even has its own bus route which runs through the town. Its construction was completed in 1954. In the construction involved the famous architects Domingo Garcia Ramos, Enrique del Moral, Mario Pani and others.

The authors of the panels that are on almost every wall – the famous Communist David Siqueiros and Diego Rivera. The style in which they decorated case is more reminiscent of the building of the CIS, rather than the capitalist architecture of Mexico.

On campus work and study more than 100 thousand people, incidentally, are and Russian students. It is important to know that the entrance to the town is prohibited without the consent of the local administration, but to get here is easy with excursion.

On campus there are 40 different institutes and faculties of the Olympic stadium, cultural centre, several museums, the Observatory, the tower of the administration, even ecological reserve and, of course, a huge library. Next to each body there is a small places to stay, however, they are also made in a very simple style.

The main University building was included in the UNESCO world heritage site in 2007.

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