Located on the summit of the Hill of Chapultepec, the castle was built by Mexico's viceroy in 1780 and subsequently became the seat of the Mexican emperor Maximilian I. Since 1940, it hosts the National Museum of History.
Location:
- Mexico, Miguel Hidalgo
- geo:19.420408,-99.181839
- Exact location
Class:
- Museum
- visible
Identifiers:
- vici:place=101144
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Nearby
Baños de Moctezuma
Pre-Columbian and modern baths on the Hill of Chapultepec.
National Museum of Anthropology
The National Museum of Anthropology on the Hill of Chapultepec.
Mixcoac (3 km)
Pre-Columbian archaeological site.