Niños Héroes metro station (Monterrey) explained

Niños Héroes
Style:Metrorrey
Style2:2
Address:Monterrey
Country:Nuevo León, Mexico
Opened:31 October 2007[1]
Operator:STC Metrorrey

The Niños Héroes Station is a station on Line 2 of the Monterrey Metro. It is located in the intersection of Alfonso Reyes and Ciudad de Los Ángeles Avenues.

This station is next to the Niños Héroes Park (from which the station takes its name), it's also near the Raúl Rangel Frías Library of the University of Nuevo León,[2] the Nuevo León Cycling track,[3] and the Estadio de Béisbol Monterrey.[4] [5] It is accessible for people with disabilities.

This station's logo represents a stylized headshot of a "Niño Héroe" (one of the hero boys that died defending the country against the American invasion in 1847).

This station was inaugurated on October 31, 2007 as part of the first stage of the Line 2 expansion (along with Regina Station and Universidad).[6] [1]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: STC Metrorrey - Gobierno del Estado de Nuevo León, México: HISTORIA. Spanish. July 13, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20131024140252/http://www.nl.gob.mx/?P=metrorrey_principal. October 24, 2013. dead.
  2. Web site: UANL-DGB - Ubicación - Biblioteca Universitaria "Raúl Rangel Frías". Spanish. 11 July 2011.
  3. Web site: Velodromo Nuevo León - Stadium Atlas. 11 July 2011.
  4. Web site: Sultanes de Monterrey. Spanish. 11 July 2011.
  5. Web site: World Stadiums - Stadiums in Mexico :: Northern Mexico. 11 July 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110605142819/http://www.worldstadiums.com/north_america/countries/mexico/northern_mexico.shtml. 5 June 2011.
  6. Web site: Schwandl . Robert . Monterrey . urbanrail . 2019-10-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090531033621/http://www.urbanrail.net/am/mony/monterrey.htm . 2009-05-31 . dead .