Museum of the City of Mexico
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 116 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5144-7313-7
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Museum of the City of Mexico (Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico) is located at Pino Suarez 30, a few blocks south of the Zocalo, on what was the Iztapalapa Causeway, near where Hernan Cortes and Moctezuma II met for the first time. This building used to be the palace of the Counts of Santiago de Calimaya, who were the descendents of one of the conquistadors with Cortes. The house was extensively remodeled to much the appearance that it has today and remained in the family until 1960, when the Mexico City government acquired it from them in order to found the Museum that is found there today. The museum contains a number of elements of the old palace as well as 26 rooms dedicated to the history and development of Mexico City from Aztec times to the present. It also contains a library and the studios of painter Joaquin Clausell, who lived here in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений,...
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