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12 unusual facts about Chapultepec


Antonio Sebastián de Toledo, 2nd Marquis of Mancera

The Marquis arrived in Chapultepec and remained there some days before making his formal entry into Mexico City.

Battle of Molino del Rey

Preparations began immediately thereafter for the Battle of Chapultepec.

Betty Fabila

In 1962 at the Castle of Chapultepec in Mexico City, Fabila she gave the first modern performances of solo cantatas by the Italian baroque composer Giacomo Facco, whose scores had been discovered by her husband in the National Library of Paris.

Chimalpopoca

This aqueduct was of wood, and ran from the elevated place of Chapultepec to Tenochtitlan.

El bolero de Raquel

In the first days, Cantinflas goes to work in Chapultepec and Chavita catches a ball that some other children are playing with, and almost ends up in a fight with the owners of the ball.

Fausto Vega Santander

In Mexico City in Chapultepec Park the Escuadrón 201 had its Commemorative mausoleum near the Niños Héroes monument.

Halls of Montezuma

Chapultepec, a hill settled by the Aztecs near Tenochtitlan; now a park in Mexico City

Honoré Beaugrand

He returned with those troops to France after the fall of Chapultepec and Maximilian's execution.

Llena de dulzura

Yuri sang "El Pequeño Panda de Chapultepec" for the little panda that was born in the Chapultepec Zoo.

Mariana Levy

It is known for sure that she suffered a heart attack while stopped at a red light in the Mexico City neighborhood of Lomas de Chapultepec.

Mexican–American War campaigns

To do so, it was necessary to take the citadel of Chapultepec, a massive stone fortress on top of a hill about a mile outside the city proper.

Papalote museo del niño

The museum Papalote Museo del Niño is located in Mexico City Bosques de Chapultepec.


Cárcamo de Dolores

The Cárcamo de Dolores (Sump of Dolores) is a hydraulic structure located on the Second Section of Chapultepec Park, in Mexico City, comprising the building designed by architect Ricardo Rivas, inside the originally underwater mural Agua, el origen de la vida (Water, source of life) of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, the art installation Cámara Lambdoma by Ariel Guzik, and in outside, the Tlaloc Fountain, also of Rivera.

José Víctor Crowley

These include events at the Carrillo Gil museum, Galería Glance, Chapultepec International Galleries in Chicago, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Centro Cultural Casa Vallarta and Museo de Periodismo y las Artes Gráficas in Guadalajara.

Metro Chapultepec

The station is also served by two trolleybus lines of STE: One is route S, which runs east from Chapultepec to Metro Velódromo along the arterial thoroughfares known as Eje 2 Sur and Eje 2A Sur and is one of two high-frequency trolleybus lines that STE calls "Zero-Emissions Corridors".

William Plummer Benton

When Benton was 18 years old, he enlisted as a private in the Mexican War, and fought with gallantry in the mounted infantry at Contreras, Churubusco, Chapultepec and Mexico City.