Where is Montezuma's Castle?
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Published in Daily Trivia
Tucked into a limestone recess high above the Verde Valley of Arizona stands Montezuma's Castle, one of the best preserved and most easily accessible cliff ruins in all of North America. This five-story, twenty-room cliff dwelling served as a "high-rise apartment building" for prehistoric Sinagua Indians more than 600 years ago. Early settlers assumed that the imposing structure was connected to the Aztec emperor Montezuma, but this "castle" was abandoned almost a century before Montezuma was born.
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