Welcome to: Montezuma Castle & Montezuma Well - Arizona
Montezuma Castle National Monument protects a set of well-preserved cliff dwellings near the town of Camp Verde, Arizona, United States. The dwellings were built and used by the Sinagua people, a pre-Columbian culture closely related to the Hohokam and other indigenous peoples of the southwestern United States, between approximately 1100 and 1425 AD. The main structure comprises five stories and twenty rooms, and was built over the course of three centuries.
Neither part of the monument's name is correct. When European-Americans first observed the ruins in the 1860s, by then long-abandoned, they named them for the famous Aztec emperor Montezuma in the mistaken belief that he had been connected to their construction (see also Montezuma mythology). In fact, the dwelling was abandoned more than 40 years before Montezuma was born, and was not a castle in the traditional sense, but instead functioned more like a prehistoric high rise apartment complex.
Several Hopi clans and Yavapai communities trace their ancestries to early immigrants from the Montezuma Castle/Beaver Creek area. Clan members periodically return to these ancestral homes for religious ceremonies.
Montezuma Well, a natural limestone sinkhole also containing Sinagua dwellings, was purchased by the federal government in 1947 and is considered a detached unit of Montezuma Castle National Monument. It is located several miles north of the Castle near the town of Rimrock, Arizona, accessible from exits 293 and 298 off Interstate 17.
(source: wikipedia)
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Montezuma Castle National Monument Facts
Montezuma Castle National Monument Facts: In 2006, I was fortunate enough while on a business trip to visit my very first ruins. The name of these ruins are called Montuzuma's Castle. What many people may not know is Montezuma Castle is the given name for the Castle. The actual people responsible for building the Castle are the Sinaqua tribe. The Sinaqua tribe built the castle around 700 years ago. Apparently this site was abandoned and researchers are unsure of why. Early settlers who discovered the cliff dwelling ruins erroneously connected them to the Aztec emperor Montezuma, but in-fact the Sinaqua ruins had been abandoned a hundred years before Montezuma was even born. Some of are reasons given are, abandonment due to war with possibly the Yavapai Indians. Another reason that was given was possibly drought. Nonetheless, researchers are not exactly sure why the Sinequa left Montezuma's Castle.
Montezuma Castle National Monument Facts
More Montezuma Castle National Monument Facts
Here's another interesting fact about Montezuma's Castle. Montezuma's Castle, is currently the best kept ancient ruin in the Americas. It is considered to be the Americas first apartment complex known to our society today. What are the castle's specs you ask? Well, the Castle has 20 rooms and stands about five stories high. this amazingly beautiful structure sits comfortably carved into a mountain which is near Tuzigoot ruins. The Tuziggot (Apache for Crooked Water), remnants of a Sinquan Village built on a ridge summit. Tuzigoot was two stories high with 77 ground floor rooms that were accessible via ladders through roof openings.
If you and your family love visiiting ruins then I would recommend visiting if you are ever in Arizona to stop by Montezuma Castle which is open every day of the year at 8:00 a.m. with a summer closing of 7:00 p.m. and winter hours until 5:00 p.m. There is a very modest entrance fee and children under 16 are admitted free. The Montezuma Visitors Center has a small museum displaying artifacts and the park includes paved, self-guiding trails which are wheel chair accessible.
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