Inside the palace there are murals painted by Diego Rivera between 1929 and 1945. His México a Través de los Siglos (Mexico through the Centuries), on the main stairwell leading to the first floor, depicts every major event and person of Mexican history, from Cortés’ conquest of the Aztecs and Mexico to the Mexican Revolution. The most famous being the "Epic of the Mexican People in their Struggle for Freedom and Independence", which condenses two thousand years of history onto the space of a wall.
(Photo - Cortes meeting the Aztecs - they believed him to be the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl)
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