Halls of Montezuma may refer to:
- Chapultepec, a hill settled by the Aztecs near Tenochtitlan; now a park in Mexico City.
- Chapultepec Castle, located on Chapultepec hill. Though built for the Spanish rulers of Mexico, it was commonly called the "Halls of Montezuma" after Moctezuma II, the Aztec emperor at the start of the Spanish conquest.
- Marines' Hymn, the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps. Its opening line "From the halls of Montezuma..." (referring to Chapultepec Castle, which the Marines conquered in the Mexican-American War's Battle of Chapultepec) popularized the term.
- Halls of Montezuma (1951 film), about a group of U.S. Marines; the title is from the Marines' Hymn.
- Halls of Montezuma: A Battle History of the U.S. Marine Corps, a turn based military strategy video game by Strategic Studies Group (SSG) released for home computers in 1990.
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