Bosque de Chapultepec
Sprawling ancient forest of sacred springs, cypress groves, lakes, museums and a hilltop castle.
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This guide to Bosque de Chapultepec in Mexico City traces the springs that once fed water across four miles of lake straight into Tenochtitlan, engineered under Nezahualcoyotl, the poet-king of neighboring Texcoco. It follows the emperors who bathed and gardened by that water, and the moment Hernan Cortes petitioned the Spanish crown to claim the forest and its springs for himself. Walk among the ahuehuete cypresses lining the path, some planted centuries before the Spanish ever arrived.
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