The Gran Hotel Ciudad de Mexico occupies a building on the west side of the Zocalo, the main plaza of Mexico City historic center, that opened in 1899 as the Centro Mercantil department store. In 1908 the building received an Art Nouveau stained glass ceiling designed by Jacques Gruber of the Nancy School, made of about 20,000 pieces of glass and hiding the initials CM for Ciudad Mexico within its floral pattern. The building was converted into a hotel and reopened as the Gran Hotel Ciudad de Mexico in 1968, in time for that year Summer Olympic Games.
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Old Portal de Mercaderes in the historic center of Mexico City was and is the west side of the main plaza (otherwise known as the "Zócalo"). This side of the plaza has been occupied by commercial structures since the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521. Today the west side of the square is dominated by two sets of buildings with Madero Street dividing them as it runs west from the Zocalo to the Palace of Bellas Artes. The buildings on the north side of Madero is occupied by offices on t
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It was the first building built using the "Chicago" technique, using iron and concrete and was home to one of the first department stores in Mexico City.
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Wikidata item Q7084756, property P131/P17 (location): Mexico
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