1. the property that today occupies the Los Pinos Cultural Complex It was acquired by Don José Pablo Martínez del Ríodoctor, businessman and politician who acquired the land in the mid -nineteenth century, there he built a ranch he named «The ant» because he was the smallest of his properties.
2. The famous King's mill It is a building located within the Los Pinos Cultural Complex that was built at the end of the 16th century. He witnessed the «Battle of Chapultepec» where he fought to stop US intervention.
3. The April 23, 1917, Venustiano Carranza He expropriated the property to use it as a rest house for state officials.
4. Lázaro Cárdenas He was the first president to inhabit Los Pinos because the Chapultepec Castle -Antigua presidential residence- it seemed very ostentatious and wanted all Mexicans to visit it.
5. It was also Cárdenas who changed the name of the property of «The ant» to Los Pinos It seemed to him that the first was not very suitable for the president's house. He chose to call her pines in memory of the name of the garden where he met his wife in Tacámbaro, Michoacán.
6. Los Pinos covers a space of 56 thousand square metersfourteen times larger than that of the White House in the United States.
7. It consists of the Molino del Rey, Museum of the Presidential General Staff, the roadway of the presidents, the Miguel Alemán residence, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines residence, Miguel de la Madrid room, Adolfo López Mateos room, Casa Lázaro Cárdenas that was previously «the ant», the path of democracy where busts of relevant characters, two cabins, two pools, two pools of tennis, gym and massage room.
8. In total 14 Presidents and their families lived in Los Pinos since he was appointed presidential residence.
9. Before the pines there were three official residences, National Palace and the Chapultepec Castle.
10. Prior to Enrique Peña Nieto's sexennium, citizens had had the opportunity to meet the Pinos because during the mandate of Luis Echeverría, tours for primary students and in the two periods of the bread were organized, guided tours were offered and there was a virtual tour available on the official site.