On our last P-Day Dennis drove us downtown to Mexico City and we went to the Chapultepec Castle. This was the first picture took of it as we looked up the hill upon which the castle was built.
The castle is now a museum. It was finished being built in 1863 but was started in 1785.
This stained glass window reads the name of Chapultepec. The hill upon which it was built was a sacred site for the Aztecs. The castle was used by the Mexican Emperor Maximilian I.
The front of the castle with the fountain.
The gardens are immaculate. A picture below shows how the gardeners have stretched string on a pole to make an exact edge where they are trimming the hedges.
From the roof top you can see the paseo de la reforma which is one of the main streets in Mexico City. It is a striking view to see the old castle and the modern city with a forest in between.
The blue bedroom of the 16 year old (as least she was 16 when she married the Emperor and came to Mexico to be the wife of Maximilian.)
The scarlet staircase
The fountain in front of the castle. The hill is called the grasshopper hill so the fountain is a grasshopper and there was a grasshopper statue down by our parking lot.
The dining room of the castle and a green stone vase. The stone was imported from Russia.
Such opulence when so many poor Mexican people live in the country. Maximilian was later killed when there was an uprising of the common people who did not want European rule of their country.
"This the American continent" includes Mexico.
The black and white marble tile veranda of the second floor of the castle.
Older part of the castle
The people loved their president Benito Juarez a local native who rose up and was an advocate for the native people.
A view of the lake and the forest from the Castle
A roaring twenty's dress...Mexican style
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