Puerta 1808, Steel sculpture on Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City, Mexico

Puerta 1808 is a 15-meter carbon steel sculpture by Manuel Felguérez standing on a 2-meter plinth at the corner of Paseo de la Reforma and Avenida Juárez. Álvaro Medina of the Durban Segnini Gallery describes it as a structure of two triangles, a vertically split cone trunk, two cantilevered arched beams, a tubular linear beam and several tension rods.

Puerta 1808 was inaugurated on 20 October 2007 by Marcelo Ebrard, then head of government of Mexico City, at the corner of Paseo de la Reforma and Avenida Juárez. Manuel Felguérez made it for the bicentennial of Mexican independence. Its name recalls 1808, the year the New Spain lawyer Francisco Primo de Verdad y Ramos died in prison after advocating self-rule; Felguérez dedicated the work to him.

The sculpture marks an important threshold to the historic center and has become a focal point where people gather and pause during their walks through the city. Its geometric form creates a modern gateway that shapes how visitors and residents experience this busy intersection.

The sculpture is accessible at all times in an open public space located at a busy street corner, making it easy to visit. Visitors can view it from multiple angles as it stands free-standing at an intersection with good circulation around its base.

Felguérez called it a living sculpture: it changes its look at every demonstration, colored with the slogans of the protesters of the moment. Far from being a grievance, he said, this gives it a dynamism and validity that will end only when a fair country is achieved, that is, never.