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Cuernavaca, the capital
of the tiny state of Morelos is known as the City of Eternal Spring.
It has also been a get-away for Mexico City's rich and famous for
centuries. Razed and rebuilt by the Spaniards in the 1520's, this
former Tlahuica Indian city was bequeathed to Hernan Cortes as his
own private kingdom by the King of Spain. Cortes' former fortress
is today the Museo Cuauhnahuac and his Plantation House an attractive
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During the past four
centuries, numerous wealthy Mexicans escaping the congestion of
Mexico City (a day or an hour trip depending on the century) built
massive haciendas and mansions in and around Cuernavaca. Such conspicuous
consumption met its match in the figure of Emiliano Zapata, the
revolutionary who, in 1910, demolished most of these Haciendas in
the cause of land reform. |
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Cuernavaca remains
today a beautiful, flower filled city with a large foreign population
and wide choice of Spanish Language schools. Buildings and hotels
evoke the opulent and gracious Hacienda life-style complete with
courtyards, beamed ceilings, fireplaces and overflowing gardens
- as flowers are, of course, a constant sight in the City of Eternal
Spring. |
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