Since the late 1990s, Mexico City’s Plaza de la Constitución, better known as the Zócalo, has been the spot for musical events that have turned the country’s main public square into the biggest stage for massive and unforgettable shows.

The last major crowd event hosted at the so-called First Square of the nation’s capital was the screening of the iconic Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel’s first concert at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in 1990. This event, held last Saturday (Nov. 8), brought together 170,000 people, according to data from the city government. The screening was organized by Netflix to promote the docuseries Juan Gabriel: I Must, I Can, I Will (or in Spanish, Juan Gabriel: Debo, puedo y quiero), which had premiered just days earlier.

This was the second time a concert

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