Photo © 2006, Garth Catterall-Heart Montezumas Castle, AzMontezuma Castle National Monument, located near Camp Verde, Arizona in the western United States, features well-preserved cliff dwellings. They were built and used by the Sinagua Indians around 1400 AD. When European Americans discovered them in the 1850s, they reported native traditions that they had been built by a divine hero named Montezuma Ñ whose name may have been connected with the well-known historical Aztec emperor of Mexico, Moctezuma II, and accounts in Spanish as early as 1694 reference them as the "Casas de Montezuma". Some of these accounts have led to a mistaken belief that the Spanish or Americans themselves had named them after the emperor.
The five-story stone and mortar dwellings contain 20 rooms and once housed about 35 people. A natural overhang shades the rooms and shelters them from rain. Another part of the cliff wall bears the marks of an even larger dwelling, which has not survived. The dwellings and the surrounding area were declared a U.S. National Monument on December 8, 1906. The National Monument was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Photo ID = 060219_304c_6169 Keywords = Montezumas Castle, Az Horizontal or Landscape Prints at special prices. This photo may be available in other sizes. |
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