From 1934 to 2018 Los Pinos (the pines)located in Chapultepec Park was the official residence and office of the president of Mexico. It began as a mill in around 1550 and in 1853 was sold to a Doctor José Pablo Martinez del Rio who built the Casa Grande (big house) there. In 1865 the whole property was sold to Emperor Maximillian. Upon his execution the house was returned to Dr del Rio. After the Mexican Revolution the property was expropriated by the first president, Venustiano Carranza who chose to live in the sumptuous Chapultepec Castle. It wasn't until 1934 that president Lázaro Cárdena, who thought the castle was too ostentatious, moved into Los Pinos. It housed 13 of the 14 presidents since until the current president, the populist, left-leaning Lopez Obrador, thought it was too ostentatious and opened Los Pinos to the public as a cultural centre and moved to his own house. There's your little history lesson. And here's the property:
The presidential office building
The presidential office
The presidential kitchen
The presidential living room
The presidential dining room
The underground presidential movie theatre
The Lázaro Cárdenas house
The grounds
On the way home I stopped in the park for this: A Canadian at the Totem Canadiense - a tribute to Canada's 150th - the totem, not the Canadian
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