Palace of Cortés
Palacio de Cortés
Built by Cortés in the 1520s, one of the oldest surviving Spanish colonial civic buildings in the Americas, housing Diego Rivera's murals on the history of Morelos.
Palacio de Cortés was built on the site of a Tlahuica palace from the Aztec period and is one of the oldest surviving colonial-era civic buildings in the Americas. It now houses the Regional Museum of the People of Morelos (INAH), which presents local history from prehistory to the Mexican Revolution. The murals by Diego Rivera (1930) on the second-floor gallery depict the conquest, sugarcane plantations and the Zapatista uprising, and are the highlight of a visit. Admission is under about 100 pesos, and Mexican residents enter free on Sundays. The palace stands on the east side of the central plaza and can be visited on foot together with the cathedral and Jardín Borda.
Opening hours
Tue–Sun 09:00–18:00
Nearby sights
- Plaza de Armas & Jardín Juárez
- Robert Brady Museum
- Juan Soriano Morelos Museum of Contemporary Art
- Cuernavaca Cathedral
- Jardín Borda
- Salto de San Antón
- Teopanzolco
- Ethnobotanical Garden & Museum of Traditional Medicine