El padrón de Alonso de Ávila Alvarado de 1567 y el templo de Huitzilopochtli

Abstract

Perhaps one of the most renowned lots at the start of the urbanization of Mexico City after the fall of the great Tenochtitlan was that of Alonso de Ávila Alvarado, who is remembered for having participated in the conspiracy plotted by the sons of Hernán Cortés, which cost them their lives in 1566. In the sentencing after Ávila Alvarado’s trial, he was ordered, after the demolition of the houses, to place a stone slab or column with an inscription describing the crime. This paper attempts to recover what happened after the trial, because relatively soon after, other houses were built on the site, which with time became a reference point to remember the location of the Gran Teocalli.