Chapultepec Castle
Mexico, Mexico
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Perched at 2,325 metres atop Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City, Chapultepec Castle blends Gothic Revival and Neoclassical styles on a site sacred to the Aztecs. Originally built as a summer residence for the Spanish viceroy during the Viceroyalty of New Spain, it served variously as a gunpowder warehouse and military academy before becoming the official residence of Emperor Maximilian I and Empress Carlota during the Second Mexican Empire (1864–67). From 1882 onward, it functioned as the official presidential residence until President Lázaro Cárdenas relocated to Los Pinos in 1934. Transformed into the National Museum of History in February 1939, it remains one of only two royal palaces in North America to have housed monarchs.
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