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Chapultepec Castle (Spanish: Castillo de Chapultepec) is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City's Chapultepec park. The name Chapultepec is the Nahuatl word chapoltepēc which means "on the hill of the grasshopper". It is located at the entrance to Chapultepec park, at a height of 2,325 metres (7,628 ft) above sea level. [1]
The Obelisco a los Niños Héroes is a monument installed in Chapultepec, Mexico City. The cenotaph was created in 1881 by architect Ramón Rodríguez Arangoity, one of the cadets captured in the Battle of Chapultepec. [1] [2] The marble cenotaph was a typical nineteenth-century monument.
The National Museum of History (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Historia), also known as MNH, is a national museum of Mexico, located inside Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City. The Castle itself is found within the first section of the well known Chapultepec Park. The museum received 2,135,465 visitors in 2017. [1]
The six cadets are honored by an imposing monument made of Carrara marble by architect Enrique Aragón and sculptor Ernesto Tamariz at the entrance to Chapultepec Park (1952). [2] This semicircular monument with six columns, placed at what was the end of the Paseo de la Reforma , a major thoroughfare leading from the central square (Zócalo) to ...
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El Asalto al Castillo de Chapultepec y los Niños Héroes. Mexico City: Colección Conciencia Cívica Nacional 1983. [ISBN missing] Fernández del Castillo, Antonio. Cien años de la epopeya 1847–1947. Mexico City 1947. Plasencia de la Parra, Enrique. "Conmemoración de la hazaña épica de los niños héroes: su origen, desarrollo, y ...