Chapultepec Castle
Chapultepec Castle is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City's Chapultepec park. The name Chapultepec is the Nahuatl word chapoltepēc which means "on the hill of the grasshopper".Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Castle
- Description: palace in Mexico
- Also known as: “Palacio de Chapultepec”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chapultepec and National Museum of Anthropology.
Chapultepec
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chapultepec is Mexico City's principal park, "the green lung of the city". This hill has been important throughout the city's history as the perch of fortresses and palaces, and the manicured forest surrounding it now holds many of Mexico's greatest cultural treasures.
National Museum of Anthropology
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Museum of Anthropology is a national museum of Mexico. It is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Mahatma Gandhi Street within Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, the museum contains… National Museum of Anthropology is situated 1 km northwest of Chapultepec Castle.
El Sargento
Photo: B.jars, CC BY-SA 4.0.
El Sargento is a Mexican cypress tree in Mexico City's park Chapultepec, planted by Nezahualcoyotl c. 1460. After living for approximately 500 years, the tree died in 1969, and its trunk stands today at around 50 feet tall. El Sargento is situated 150 metres southeast of Chapultepec Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Condesa and San Miguel Chapultepec.
Condesa
Neighborhood
Photo: Keizers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Condesa or La Condesa is an area in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, south of Zona Rosa and 4 to 5 km west of the Zócalo, the city's main square.
San Miguel Chapultepec
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
San Miguel Chapultepec is a colonia or neighborhood in Delegación Miguel Hidalgo in Mexico City. Its borders are: The colonia's streets carry the names of generals and governors of Mexico.
Little Seoul
Neighborhood
Pequeño Seúl is a Koreatown in Mexico City. Most of the city's Korean population lives in and around the Zona Rosa. According to the newspaper Reforma, there are at least 5,000 Koreans living in Zona Rosa and about 6,000 total in Colonia Juárez, the larger officially recognized neighborhood of which the Zona Rosa is a part of.
Chapultepec Castle
- Categories: palace, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Mexico City, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Chapultepec Castle” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قلعة تشابولتيبيك”
- Armenian: “Չապուլտեպեկ ամրոց”
- Asturian: “Castiellu de Chapultepec”
- Basque: “Chapultepec gaztelua”
- Bulgarian: “Чапултепекски замък”
- Catalan: “castell de Chapultepec”
- Catalan: “Castell de Chapultepec”
- Catalan: “Chapultepec”
- Chinese: “查普尔特佩克城堡”
- Chinese: “查普爾特佩克城堡”
- Dutch: “Chapultepec (paleis)”
- Dutch: “Chapultepec”
- Dutch: “Paleis van Chapultepec”
- Esperanto: “Kastelo de Ĉapultepeko”
- French: “Chateau de Chapultepec”
- French: “château de Chapultepec”
- French: “Château de Chapultepec”
- French: “Château de Miravalle”
- German: “Castillo de Chapultepec”
- German: “Schloss Chapultepec”
- Greek: “Κάστρο Τσαπουλτεπέκ”
- Italian: “Castello di Chapultepec”
- Japanese: “チャプルテペク城”
- Japanese: “チャプルテペック城”
- Korean: “차풀테펙 성”
- Korean: “차풀테펙성”
- Malay: “Istana Chapultepec”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Castillo de Chapultepec”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chapultepec-slottet”
- Norwegian: “Chapultepec-slottet”
- Persian: “قلعه چپولتپک”
- Portuguese: “Castelo de Chapultepec”
- Portuguese: “Castillo de chapultepec”
- Portuguese: “Museu nacional de história”
- Russian: “Замок Чапультепек”
- Russian: “Чапультепекский дворец”
- Slovenian: “Grad Chapultepec”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Chapultepec”
- Spanish: “Museo Nacional de Historia”
- Spanish: “Palacio de Chapultepec”
- Swedish: “Castillo de Chapultepec”
- Turkish: “Chapultepec Kalesi”
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