Palace of Cortés

Morelos · Mexico · Palace

In the 1520s, Hernán Cortés raised his palace in Cuernavaca on top of a conquered Aztec platform, making it one of the oldest surviving buildings on the continent. During works in the 1970s, archaeologists found a wooden doll with a pin driven through its head, a lock of human hair beside it — witchcraft some attribute to Cortés's own wife, Juana de Zúñiga. Beneath the palace, a serpent woman is said to guard a hidden Aztec treasure, and the legends speak of a secret escape tunnel to the old temple. The palace is a museum today, but its darker stories live on in the halls.

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Hvor ligger Palace of Cortés?

Palace of Cortés ligger i Morelos, Mexico.

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