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Dec 28, 2010 · Discover Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City, Mexico: The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.
San Miguel Chapultepec, C.P. 11580 ... on the ground floor, to the time when the Castle was inhabited by the emperors Maximilian of Habsburg and Charlotte (1864-1867); and on the top floor, at the time when President Porfirio Díaz and his wife Carmen Romero Rubio occupied the building as a summer house (1883-1910). ...
In 1325, after the founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, Chapultepec was considered a sacred place and strategic site due to the springs that supplied drinking water to the capital of the empire. During the Viceroyalty, Chapultepec continued to be a site of great importance. In 1530 the emperor Carlos Quinto decreed, by Royal Decree, that the forest ...
One of the premier museums in the city, Chapultepec Castle is the site of as much history as the museum inside contains. Having been the residence of an emperor and a series of presidents, it was built as the home to the man for whom Galveston, Texas, was named.
