El Cielito

On a hill 6km/4mi to the south-east of Tula, known as El Cielito (the "Little Heaven"), the ruins of an Aztec palace have been found, standing on the site of an older Toltec palace. The palace was actually still inhabited in the early years of the viceroyship of New Spain and historians have been able to establish that it was the residence of Pedro Moctezuma, the son of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II. This Aztec prince, a brilliant pupil at the first Franciscan school for the Indian elite, was appointed Cacique of Tula by the Spanish.