On Wednesday, March 25, 1981, it was announced that the lost treasure of Moctezuma had been discovered. Well, a small part of it, at least.
This legendary treasure has long captivated the imagination. In the 16th century, the conquistador Hernán Cortés arrived in Tenochtitlan (the present-day center of Mexico City) and stayed at the Palace of Axayacatl. There, he and his men discovered a room in which the Aztecs kept their emperors’ treasures.
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| Name | Since | Distance | |||
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| Chapultepec Butterfly Garden | 2019 | 0.4km | site_ao | ||
| Dualidad Mural | 2018 | 0.1km | site_ao | ||
| Metro Auditorio | 2019 | 0.5km | site_ao | ||
| National Museum of Anthropology Murals | 2019 | 0.1km | site_ao | ||
| ‘Las Razas y La Cultura’ Mural | 2019 | 0.1km | site_ao | ||
| Coatlicue Statue | 2019 | 0.1km | site_ao | ||
| Flowers & Gardens Spring Festival | 2019 | 1.1km | site_ao | ||
| Death Mask of Pakal the Great | 2019 | 0.1km | site_ao | ||
| Baths of Moctezuma | 2019 | 1.2km | site_ao | ||
| Mask of the Bat God | 2019 | 0.1km | site_ao | ||
| The Turquoise-Studded Skull of a Long-Dead Aztec Man | 2019 | 0.1km | site_ao | ||
| Monolith of Tlaloc | 2019 | 0.1km | site_ao | ||
| Xochipilli | 2019 | 0.1km | site_ao | ||
| Centro de Cultura Digital | 2019 | 1.3km | site_ao | ||
| Disk of Death | 2018 | 0.1km | site_ao | ||
| Los Pinos | 2018 | 0.9km | site_ao | ||
| The Jaguar Cuauhxicalli | 2018 | 0.1km | site_ao | ||
| Future Forest | 2018 | 0.7km | site_ao | ||
| Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo | 1980 | 0.6km | site_brutalism |
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