Tlatelolco

Tlatelolco is a district of Mexico City, located in the delegation of Cuauhtémoc (DF). It is centered around the place of the Three-Cultures with side the base of an Aztec pyramid , the Temple of Santiago of the 17th century, and a whole of modern buildings of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Mexico.

History

According to the tradition, Tlatelolco would have been founded in 1357 by a group of Aztec dissidents on a small island right in the north of Tenochtitlan. It arises from the archaeological excavations that the site is older of approximately a century. There it is undoubtedly necessary to see a historical handling on behalf of the Mexica /Tenochca (inhabitants of Mexico City Tenochtitlan), which wished to thus affirm the primacy of their city, whose traditional date of foundation is 1325. The relations between the two cities were always stormy. Demolished by its neighbor in 1473, Tlatelolco was seen imposing a military governor mexica and the payment of a tribute.

The day before the Spanish conquest, it was the district of the market of the Tenochtitlan capital, probably one of vastest of Americas. According to the Conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo, it was larger than all those which it had seen, including with Venice and Constantinople.

When the conquistadors carried out by Hernán the Cortes reflect the seat with Tenochtitlan, that they conquered and shaved district by district, the Aztec conduits by Cuauhtemoc were finally encircled in Tlatelolco, where they made their last combat to undergo a defeat and to be massacred with their family, forty thousand on the whole, the August 13rd 1521.

In 1967, the treated of Tlatelolco was open for the signature with an aim of establishing a free zone of nuclear weapons in Latin America and with the the Antilles. Since, all the countries of the area signed and ratified the treaty.

The October 2nd 1968, the place was the scene of the Massacre of Tlatelolco, in which more than three hundred students who protested were killed by the army and the police force.

The real whole of Nonoalco-Tlatelolco housing contains a Carillon of 47 bells. To 125 m, it is the highest tower with chime of the world.

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