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The official summer residence of Maximilian and Carlota was at the Borda Gardens, but Maximilian had acquired in Acapantzingo a small casa named Olindo (today a botanical centre and a herbal museum). Lowry has conflated the two locations.
Ruins
The Gardens
Maximilian & Carlota's casa
"What is all this ex-splendour anyway"' he said. / "Maximilian's Palace. The summer one, I think."UTV, 123.
The outside of the Casa Maximiliano, c. 1920. From Sergio Barrera, Crónicas de Cuernavaca, 169.