PLAZA DE LOS HOMBRES ILLUSTRES

Across Avenida Morelos, the block-square Plaza de los Hombres Ilustres is bordered by 16 sculptures of Jalisco’s eminent citizens. Their remains lie beneath the stone rotunda in the center; their bronze statues line the sidewalk. Right at the corner you’ll find the figure of revered Jalisco governor Ignacio Vallarta; a few steps farther north stands the statue of José Clemente Orozco, legally blind when he executed his great works of art. Continue around the plaza, and you will be rewarded with a view of a recent addition to the Hombres Ilustres statues: the celebrated humanist and educator Irene Robledo Garcia.