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Places to Visit
A Mexican ‘ahuehuete’ or cypress tree in the Parque del Retiro, Madrid
Here’s an eclectic sampling of interesting places, in the UK and abroad, with connections to (ancient) Mexico. When you next visit Madrid, incidentally, do walk around the beautiful Parque del Retiro, near Atocha railway station, and look for the ‘oldest tree in Madrid’, a Mexican ahuehuete, planted there in 1633. It conjures up images of the famous Tree of the Sad Night, in Popotla, Mexico City...
Vanilla, cacao, chicle, avocado, agave...Meet them all at Chelsea Physic Garden!
Is this the earliest representation in Britainof the original inhabitants of the Americas?
Visit the only surviving royalchocolate kitchen in Britain...
There are plenty of Mexican gemsin this ‘museum of museums’...
Important historical links between Mexico- and Bristol City Museum...
Results of a survey of Aztec objectsheld in museums around Britain...
Mexican heritage here in the UK...... all on a single beautifully produced DVD-ROM
A copy of the Tizoc Stone -- in Haslemere Museum!
Deep in rural West Sussex there’s...... a rare 18th. century Mexican embroidered ‘rebozo’
The priceless Codex Fejérváry-Mayer...... lives in Liverpool
Yes there’s an annual Chilli Fiesta...... near Chichester!
Spot the Mexicanin the Coat of Arms of Lord Cowdray (of Cowdray Park in Sussex)
Not-to-be-missed Aztec treasuresviewable every day in central London
Aztec legacyin Bournville?
The Garden of Eden ...in south west England
Mexican plants...... in south west London
Musical Instruments from Mexico andall over the world in Forest Hill...
Help identify the fakes...... and the genuine artefacts!
Mexican curiosities... in the Royal Pavilion
The Mexican Order of the Aztec Eaglewas given to The Queen in 1975
A different Aztec Calendar Stonecan be seen in Philadelphia
Have you ever been to Aztec -- a little town in New Mexico?
Barcelona - home to a gem of a museumof pre-Columbian artefacts
Paris: home to important collectionsof pre-Hispanic Mexican artefacts
Where to visit on the history of chocolate?Try the Choco-Story Museum in Bruges
Find shipwrecked gold and silverin the Museo de América in Madrid...
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A Mexican ‘ahuehuete’ or cypress tree in the Parque del Retiro, Madrid
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