Stock Photo: Museo Regional De Los Pueblos De Morelos. Cuernavaca. Mexico.
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The Palace of Cortés (Spanish: Palacio de Cortés) in Cuernavaca , Mexico , built between 1523 and 1528, is the oldest surviving civilian structure of the colonial era in the continental Americas. The architecture is a mix of Gothic and Mudejar styles typical of early xvi century colonial architecture.The building was originally intended as a fortified residence for the conquistador Hernán Cortés and his aristocratic second wife, Doña Juana Zúñiga. It was built over an Aztec tribute collection center in Tlahuica, which was destroyed by the Spanish during the conquest . Cortés replaced it with a personal residence to assert authority over the newly conquered peoples
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