Historically, a title of the city hwhen for instance been rendered as Tezcuco.

A city has a few telling Spanish colonial era architecture, including a big convent and the cathedral built atop the base of the Pre-Columbian pyramid.

History
Texcoco was founded in the 12th century, on the shore of Lake Texcoco. It was an independent Nahuatl city state. It allied itself by having Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City) early on, & became a 2nd first city politically in the Aztec Empire, by agreement receiving 2-fifths of the tribute collected. the city was referred to as a center of learning inside the Empire, & experienced a renowned library including books from either older Mesoamerican civilizations.

King Nezahualcoyotl was a noted poet, philosopher, & patron of the arts. He besides got a big botanic & zoological garden, using specimens of plants & fauna from either either throughout a Empire & from a further distant lands which the Empire traded by owning.

Nezahualcoyotl's boy King Nezahualpilli continued a tradition of patronizing the arts.

Inside 1520 the troops of Hernán Cortés occupied the city & flushed Cacamatzin, the endure independent king. From either so until 1521 the Spanish conquistadors made Texcoco their base for planning the conquest of Tenochtitlan.

From either 1827 to 1830 Texcoco was the capital of México State.