Tenochtitlan
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Tenochtitlan, also known as Mexico-Tenochtitlan, was a large Mexican altepetl in what is now the historic center of Mexico City. The exact date of the founding of the city is unclear, but the date 13 March 1325 was chosen in 1925 to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the city. The city was built on an island in what was then Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico. The city was the capital of the expanding Aztec Empire in the 15th century until it was captured by the Tlaxcaltec and the Spanish in 1521.
Tenochtitlan and Lake Texcoco in 1519
Ruins of the Templo Mayor, main temple of the Mexica people
The western side of the shallow Lake Texcoco. Tenochtitlan is the southern part of the main island (below the red line). The northern part is Tlatelolco.
The Tlatelolco Marketplace as depicted at The Field Museum, Chicago
The historic center of Mexico City, also known as the Centro or Centro Histórico, is the central neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico, focused on the Zócalo and extending in all directions for a number of blocks, with its farthest extent being west to the Alameda Central. The Zocalo is the largest plaza in Latin America. It can hold up to nearly 100,000 people.
The Zócalo also known as Plaza de la Constitución with the Mexican flag waving in the center and to the right behind it, the Old Portal de Mercaderes
Fountain with busts honoring Alonso Garcia Bravo, who laid out post-Conquest Mexico City conserving much of the original Aztec infrastructure. Located off Merced Street between Jesus María and Talavera, east of the Zocalo
Mexico City Cathedral
A view of the ruins of the Templo Mayor with museum in background