CDMX - Chapultepec Castle

Chapultepec Castle is built atop Chapultepec Hill on the south side of Mexico City and, to quote Wikipedia:  The name Chapultepec stems from the Nahuatl word chapoltepēc which means "at the grasshopper's hill".  In 1785 Viceroy Bernardo de Gálvez ordered the construction of a stately home for himself at the highest point of Chapultepec Hill.  It is located in the middle of Chapultepec Park in Mexico City at a height of 2,325 meters (7,628 ft) above sea level. The site of the hill was a sacred place for Aztecs, and the buildings atop it have served several purposes during its history, including that of Military Academy, Imperial residence, Presidential home, observatory, and presently, the National Museum of History.  It is the only royal castle in North America that was actually used as the residence of a sovereign: the Mexican Emperor Maximillan I, and his consort Empress Carlota, lived there during the The Second Mexican Empire. It's really a complete day's outing there's so much to see in the castle.  

 

 

 

 

Views from the castle down Paseo de la Reforma to the Angel de la Independencia