2 landmarks in Bosque de Chapultepec I Sección with verified facts and stories most people walk right past.
Chapultepec Castle (Museo Nacional de Historia)
s/n Av. Reforma, Bosque de Chapultepec I Sección, Ciudad de México, 11860, México
Chapultepec Castle is the only royal castle in the Americas — built in 1785 as a viceregal summer house on a hilltop that Aztec emperors had used as a retreat, later serving as a military academy, a presidential residence (Emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota furnished it in European style during their brief, tragic reign), and since 1944 the National Museum of History.
Chapultepec Park (Bosque de Chapultepec)
s/n Av. Reforma, Bosque de Chapultepec I Sección, Ciudad de México, 11860, México
Chapultepec is the Central Park of Mexico City — except it's twice the size, contains seven museums, a castle, a zoo, a lake, and 800-year-old ahuehuete trees that were already ancient when the Aztecs used this hillside as a retreat for their emperors.
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