Qualla: Monumental Clock of Pachuca https://qualla.com/monumental-clock-of-pachuca en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/g/9/f/monumental-clock-of-pachuca-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Monumental Clock of Pachuca https://qualla.com/monumental-clock-of-pachuca Monumental Clock of Pachuca: Introduction https://qualla.com/monumental-clock-of-pachuca/ Photo credit AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Every evening at six o'clock, eight bells in the key of C Major ring out the Mexican National Anthem from a copper dome above Plaza Independencia in Pachuca. The bells were forged in England. The tower they hang in was financed by a Cornish mining magnate. The white quarry stone was cut from nearby Tezoantla by teams of local stonemasons who fitted each block without mortar, using a tongue-and-groove technique that locked the tower together like a puzzle. The Monumental Clock of Pachuca stands 40 meters tall at the heart of the city, a monument that took six years, roughly 300,000 gold pesos, and an international cast of artisans to complete. It remains the most recognized symbol of a city whose fortune was built on silver.

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/g/9/f/monumental-clock-of-pachuca-wp/9g9f-monumental-clock-of-pachuca-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Monumental Clock of Pachuca: A Tower Born from Music https://qualla.com/monumental-clock-of-pachuca/ Photo credit X SUR from SOUTH OF MEXICO CITY, MEXICO, CC BY 2.0. The story begins not with a clock but with a brass band. On January 20, 1901, the Banda de Rurales gave its first performance in a wooden bandstand on what was then the Plaza de las Diligencias. The band became wildly popular, and a group of British mining companies saw an opport...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/g/9/f/monumental-clock-of-pachuca-wp/9g9f-monumental-clock-of-pachuca-a-tower-born-from-music.mp3 0:06 2 full Monumental Clock of Pachuca: Bells from London, Fire from the Hills https://qualla.com/monumental-clock-of-pachuca/ Photo credit Fperezgo, CC BY-SA 3.0. The clock machinery came from the Dent company in London, the same firm founded by the man who built Big Ben's mechanism. But the popular belief that Pachuca's clock is a replica of Big Ben is false -- Edward John Dent himself made Big Ben's five-tonne mechanism, while Pachuca's ...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/g/9/f/monumental-clock-of-pachuca-wp/9g9f-monumental-clock-of-pachuca-bells-from-london-fire-from-the-hills.mp3 0:06 3 full Monumental Clock of Pachuca: Four Women in Marble https://qualla.com/monumental-clock-of-pachuca/ Photo credit Photograph: Frank C. Müller, Baden-Baden, CC BY-SA 4.0. At the third level of the tower, four female statues stand three meters tall on each face of the structure, carved in Italy from Carrara marble. Each represents a defining moment in Mexico's constitutional history. Independence, commemorating 1810, holds a sword and a torch, her ...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/g/9/f/monumental-clock-of-pachuca-wp/9g9f-monumental-clock-of-pachuca-four-women-in-marble.mp3 0:06 4 full Monumental Clock of Pachuca: A Second Century https://qualla.com/monumental-clock-of-pachuca/ Photo credit RubeHM, CC BY-SA 4.0. On September 15, 2010, the clock turned one hundred alongside Mexico's bicentennial celebrations. The Philharmonic Orchestra of Pachuca performed in the plaza, and the centennial flag from the elementary school Julian Villagran -- the same flag used when the tower's foundation st...

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