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Part of the facade, with azulejos. It is known that the original construction was built in the 16th century, and that it is actually made up of the union of two stately mansions, of which the one that was originally located on the south side was the one that belonged, together with the so-called Plazuela de Guardiola to a man named Damián Martínez. [6]
In 1850, Mariano Arista had the old north prison door cemented shut and constructed the current northern door. He also converted the north wing into barracks of the "Batallón de Guardia de Supremos Poderes" (Battalion of Guards for the Supreme Powers). In 1864, Maximilian of Habsburg had three flagpoles installed in front of the three main doors.
Casas Nuevas de Moctezuma (English: New Houses of Moctezuma) or tecpan [2] is the name of a pre-hispanic residential complex composed of five interconnected palaces with large platforms. [1] The complex served as the royal palace and chambers of Tenochtitlan 's ninth emperor Moctezuma II , [ 1 ] who was the Aztec leader during the arrival of ...
Casas Grandes (Spanish for Great Houses; also known as Paquimé) is a prehistoric archaeological site in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Construction of the site is attributed to the Mogollon culture. Casas Grandes has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the purview of INAH and a "Pueblo Mágico" since 2015. [1]
It was changed to Ciudad de San Cristóbal in 1829. “de las Casas” was added in 1848 in honor of Bartolomé de las Casas. There were some modifications in the early 20th century to the name but it returned to San Cristóbal de las Casas in 1943. [2] In the Tzotzil and Tzeltal languages the name of the area is Jovel, “the place in the ...
In 1946, the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Institute of the Fine Arts) was created as a government agency to promote the arts and was initially housed at the Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, the Museo del Libro and other places. It is now at the Palacio. [2] In this theatre, Maria Callas debuted in the opera Norma in 1950. [5]
Bridge of Ojuelos in the state of Jalisco, part of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, a declared UNESCO World Heritage Site along with 59 other sites on the route Plaza de San Francisco square, where the Templo de la Tercera Orden and the Templo y Convento de San Francisco, whose construction began in 1567, are in the city of Sombrerete, Zacatecas.
The municipal seat is the town of El Oro de Hidalgo. The name El Oro ( Spanish: [el ˈoɾo] ⓘ ) means "the gold" in Spanish . It has subsequently been given an alternative Nahuatl name of "Teocuitlatl", meaning "sacred excrement" (referring to gold).