The first stones of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City were put into place in 1573, taken from the rocks of a nearby Aztec temple, which Hernán Cortés and his gang of conquistadores destroyed...
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Mexico City is the second-largest city in the world with its population of 21.2 million. So it's kind of a surprise to find this lush network of canals feeding off of its southern edge in the borough of Xochimilco.
Before the Spanish arrived in the 16th century, the town...
