Palacio de Bellas Artes

The stained-glass stage curtain showing the volcanoes, a million pieces of Tiffany glass

Begun in 1904 in Italian marble, interrupted by a revolution, finished in 1934 in Art Deco because thirty years had changed the fashion, and slowly sinking into the lakebed the city is built on. The exterior and the interior are from two different centuries and somehow agree.

The stage curtain is made of almost a million pieces of Tiffany glass showing the volcanoes Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl, and is raised and lit before certain performances. The upper floors hold murals by Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros, including Rivera's recreation of the work Rockefeller destroyed in New York.