Chapultepec Park
The Chapultepec Forest is a park of Mexico City, whose name means in nahuatl ( the language of the aztecs) “locoust hill” and it is the main cultural and recreative center of the city and it´s one of the biggest, most beautiful and most visited parks of world. The Chapultepec Park that is know by the habitants of the city as Chapultepec Forest, takes its name from the hill were it’s located, in whose top is the famous Chapultepec Castle, that has been been witness of the mexican history since pre-hispanic times and that is surrounded by beautiful gardens and centennial ahuehuetes (beech trees) that are some of the most ancient trees of the world.
Chapultepec is girdled by some very attractive neighborhoods: Polanco, Condesa, San Miguel and, not far away, Tacubaya. Designed originally as residential enclaves, today they bring together many interesting buildings, cultural centers, restaurants like El Lago, Meridien and CafeterÃa del Bosque.
The monument: A semi-circle of six freestanding columns at the entrance to Mexico City’s verdant jewel, Chapultepec (Aztec for “grasshopper hillâ€) Park. The columns honor six teenage cadets who threw themselves to their deaths from the heights of Chapultepec Castle in 1847 rather than surrender to U.S. Marines who were about to take Mexico City in the Mexican War.
The Chapultepec Park, in special the castle of the same name, has being very outstanding places of Mexico’s History. Its origins go back to the prehispanic times when the aztecs, after the consolidation of its power in the Valley of Mexico, stablished a sanctuary and beautiful gardens where the emperators went to search relaxation. Later, in times of the independent Mexico, the castle serve as Military College and more later in the days of the Emperor Maximiliano of Habsburght, after some adecuations, the castle became the official residence of the Second Mexican Empire. In the 20th Century, during the goverment of Lazaro Cardenas, the castle became into the National History Museum and the park was opened for the delight of the people of the city.
Alameda Central [Historic District] : Mexico City
Alameda Central is a downtown oasis of greenery, fountains and statuary. The imposing Palacio de Bellas Artes, a performing arts venue and a must-see for its art-deco interior, is next to the park. In the part of the Centro Historico between Alameda Central and the Zocalo are several impressive buildings and museums, including the Palacio de Iturbide (an Italian baroque palace), Casa de Azulejos (the House of Tiles), the Correo Central (the lovely main post office), the Museo Nacional de Arte (a grand building with Mexican art exhibits) and Museo de Franz Mayer (religious
Alameda Park
Mexico-Citys was established first urban park on the basis of market aztekischen. Today, of the visitors are surprised frequently green by that in Alameda park. The poplar which trees (alamos) was built at end 1500s and it, is of these trees that the park received its name. Geometrical ways are chamfered by short metal fences -- how one bad work of the behaviour of the people grass to regulate it far! There is here the great multiplicity of the trees, and in spite of the smog, of the mornings are a good time to see something of the lives
Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México) is the federal capital of, and largest city in, Mexico. It geographically spans the north portion of the Distrito Federal ("D.F."), although the metropolitan area extends to the state of México to the north of the Federal District, and to the state of Hidalgo. According to government statistics Mexico City is the largest most populous conurbation in North America, and third in the world, after Tokyo, and Sao Paulo, with approximately 22.1 million people. Though its urban area is the third most populous in the world, what is officially known as Mexico City (under
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (The National Museum of Natural History)
It's a fascinating place for anyone with the slightest curiosity about nature and is totally absorbing for youngsters.
Hours Tues-Sun 10am-5pm
Location Chapultepec Park, Section 2, s/n
Transportation Metro: Constituyentes
Phone 55/5516-2848
Prices Admission $1.50; free admission Tues
Castle of Chapultepec
The National museum of History is an institute whose fundamental aim is the conservation, study, and exhibition of elements of the culture that the Mexican town produced during the historical period during the fall of Tenochtitlan and the Mexican Revolution. It is located in the Castle of Chapultepec, place that has a very representative historical past in the history of our country, since Chapultepec served as mulberry to the toltecas and the mexicas at the pre-Hispanic time. Soon, in the conquest of Mexico it was part of the adjudged properties to Courteous Hernán, but in 1530, by real
Wanted: Mate for lovesick giraffe in Mexico park
Keepers of a small menagerie at a Mexican park are looking for a mate for a lovesick giraffe after the 15-foot-tall beast tried to make love to a tree and a garden shed.
The director of Central Park in Ciudad Juarez, south of the border from El Paso, Texas, said on Friday they have been looking since last month for a mate for the five-year-old giraffe, named Modesto.
"He's driving us crazy," Juan Aragones told Reuters in a telephone interview. "He's mounted a tree, a fence and even a shed."
Aragones said Central Park had
Atlantis Marine Park: Mexico City
Atlantis Marine Park
An aquarium with dolphin and seal shows.
Attraction type: Aquarium
El Papalote, Museo del Niño
This museum of the children opened in 1993. The building of the influences of pyramid majority more than 350 exposures, while two films (10 publication the every day) in the IMAX change buildings. There is here practically nothing, children to affect cannot; at once that they discover this one, they wish a long time remain. As they say it, by the adults must be accompanied exceptional by the children, Thursday, if the museum with 11pm opens to give "large kids" a probability to enjoy it - even.
Avenue Constituent 268 Forest of Chapultepec.
Second Section Colony:
Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres
Attraction type: Park
This park was built in 1954 to celebrate 17 of the leading intellectuals in the region's history and includes bronze statues of each.
Selva Magica Amusement Park : Guadalajara
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