We went back to Montezuma's Castle National Monument  this morning, along with three bus loads of foreign tourists. This is the best preserved cliff dwelling, 5 stories high. However, it's not a castle and Montezuma never lived here. It was abandoned around the 1400's and "discovered" in the 1800's. Many of the artifacts in the structure were stolen long before it became a National Monument and was protected in 1902. Since it was already named by then, the facts of not-a-castle and Montezuma-never-lived-here really didn't seem to matter to anyone. This pueblo ruin is pretty cool because it was 5 stories high. Most cliff dwellings are only two or three stories high.  

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