The Garden of the Triple Alliance is a very small garden and monument composed of three bronze castings representing the three tlatoani of the Aztec Triple Alliance, and made by the artist Jesús F. Contreras between 1888 and 1889. It is located on Filomeno Mata street (at the crossing with Tacuba street), west of the Zocalo in the historic center of Mexico City.
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Garden of the Triple Alliance on Filomeno Mata street, next to Mexican Army Museum.
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Bronze casting of Izcoatl.
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Bronze casting of Nezahualcoyotl.
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Bronze casting of Totoquihuatzin.
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Information plaque about the bronze castings.
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“A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“And we fairies, that do run
By the triple Hecate’s team
From the presence of the sun,
Following darkness like a dream,
Now are frolic. Not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallowed house.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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