San Jerónimo Lídice, or San Jerónimo Aculco is a former village, now part of

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital city, capital and primate city, largest city of Mexico, and the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North Amer ...

in the

Magdalena Contreras La Magdalena Contreras () is a borough (''demarcación territorial'') in the Mexico City. As of the 2010 census, it has a population of 239,086 inhabitants and is the third-least populous of Mexico City's boroughs. It lies at an elevation of abov ...

borough in the southwest of the city. A settlement on this spot, Aculco, goes back to

Toltec The Toltec culture () was a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican culture that ruled a state centered in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico, during the Epiclassic and the early Post-Classic period of Mesoamerican chronology, reaching prominence from 950 to 1150 CE. T ...

times, its name meaning "where the water turns". The village specialized in fruit and vegetable production. When a dam in the area was built in 1934, Toltec remains were found including the slope of a pyramid. The church of San Jerónimo Aculco dates from the 16th century founded by

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s. An open chapel remains. The church was modified in the 18th century. It celebrates its patron saint day on September 30. In 1943, part of the village changed its name from in commemoration of the massacre at

Lidice Lidice (, german: Liditz) is a municipality and village in Kladno District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants. Lidice is built near the site of the previous village of the same name, which was co ...

in what is now the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...

. Each year on June 10, the Lidice massacre is commemorated in the square in front of San Jerónimo church."Festividades" ("Celebrations"), Magdalena Contreras borough website (in Spanish)

References

External links

History of San Jerónimo (video, in Spanish)
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