Date: 12/12/2012 à 13/12/2012

Path: We took Highway sense Querétaro, e saímos na altura de San Juan de Teotihuacan.

A little more 40 km northeast of Mexico City, are the ruins of one of the most stunning cities in America pre-Columbian: a poderosa Teotihuacan (or the City of the Gods, that dialeto Nahuatl). Their structural complexity, exalted by giant pyramids scattered among the wide boulevards and residential complexes, é ponto de passagem obrigatório de qualquer turista que passe pela Cidade do México.

A Majestosa Teotihuacan

Established around the years 100 AC-250DC, Teotihuacan arose as a new religious center in Mesoamerica. But, Evidence shows that the city ended up developing a strong commercial center of the season, extending their influence to several neighboring peoples. At the height of their civilization, in the mid-fifth century, certify that the city may have reached the 150 thousand inhabitants (or but!), spread over 30 square kilometers of land. It was one of the greatest cities in the world in this period, e a maior da Mesoamérica.

View from the Pyramid of the Sun

Although many similarities, Teotihuacan was not an Aztec or Mayan city, even Olmec or Toltec. The truth is that the ethnic origin of this people is still a mystery, probably a mixture of older people still, but its complexity makes it a cultural civilization itself, the teotihuacanos (nome this, given later by the Aztecs).

The Walk of the Dead, monitored by the Pyramid of the Moon

We started our visit at the gate 1, where we are walking after leaving Tanajura parked in Teotihuacan Trailer Park, place where we spend the night. Moreover, o local é ótimo e a hospitalidade da simpática senhora são de tirar o chapéu.

Great tips and conversation at Teotihuacan Trailer Park

Traces of the passage of other fellow travelers by location

Coming Teotihuacan, the city really impresses. Loin, Pyramid of the Sun appears pompous, like he was a few meters away. Entering through the gate 1, we ran into the Palace of Quetzalcoatl, one of the most luxurious buildings (if not the most) and one of the city's most important. It may have been the residence of a remarkable and influential character. It is extensively decorated with well-preserved murals, sobretudo no que toca à cor vermelha que era a cor preferida desta civilização.

Or Palace of Quetzalcoatl

Detail of the columns of the Palace

Right beside it, is a major city buildings, to Pirâmide da Lua, the second highest of all the archaeological site. Any symmetric, at Piramide dá to acesso longa Avenue of the Dead, uma short Teotihuacan long avenue of Ponta to Ponta. Built superimposed on another construction that year's date 200 DC, says that the Pyramid of the Moon is dedicated to sacrifices to the goddess of water. If you can climb halfway to the top, where you have a privileged view of the whole city, incluindo a majestosa Pirâmide do Sol.

View from Pirâmide da Lua

The figure of a jaguar, constantly present in the paintings of civilization

This is the masterpiece of the city. With its 70 meters high and 225 lateral base meter, the Pyramid of the Sun is astonishingly large. A complexidade da construção feita a milhares de anos atrás, without any of the tools that facilitate our work today make us stop to think how this was possible. The construction was made in impressive 150 years old, a partir do ano 0.

The Pyramid of the Sun

70 meters of stones and mystery

Stop to rest, after several steps of ascent

Seguindo ao sul da Calzada de los Muertos, The Citadel and is também or belo gives the Feathered Serpent Temple, or the Quetzacoatl Temple. Built between the years of 150 and 250 d.C., Citadel was the new political center, cultural and economic city of Teotihuacán, and had the capacity to house approximately 100 mil pessoas.

The snakes the Quetzacoatl Temple

Part of the temple survived while

Since it is believed that the temple was in its heyday

The visit was also entitled to a museum in output, where we could observe some objects taken from the ruins and learn more about the history of Teotihuacan. We prefer to make every visit to the archaeological site without a guide to save, mas há diversos deles disponíveis nas entradas da cidade.

Objects found in the region

Head of the Feathered Serpent

A full day tour is the least we can book to get to know this wonderful archaeological site. Outside the high season (July and August), we had some problems with queues and the ruins were there practically for us. A visita foi impressionante e nos instigou a conhecer mais sobre esses povos misteriosos que ocuparam nossa América há milhares de anos atrás.

Heritage of UNESCO

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