What if looking without touching it is not mine?

Cultural Mexican heritage

How much do you know about the culture of Mexico? Would you recognize Mexican Art if you had it right under your nose? The knowledge is waiting for you keep on reading.

What if looking without touching it is not mine?

If you are one of those persons who believe that looking from afar is boring, we invite you to discover the archaeological zones of the country, there you will travel to the past daily life of our ancestors;You can play around,, walk around these sites, or even climb some buildings. An adventure full of culture and history, where you will unwittingly learn a little more.

·         Tulum

Tulum or Tuluum was a city Mayan walled city located in Quintana Roo's State, to the south-east of Mexico, on the coast of the Caribbean Sea. The city was receiving in the antique Zamá's Mayan name (that it means “dawn” or “tomorrow”) and the current one, Tulum (that means in Mayan palisade or wall), that seems to be have been used when referring to the city although it was in ruins.

·         Cobá

Cobá is an archaeological deposit of the Mayan pre-Columbian culture, located in the southeast of Mexico territory in the state of Quintana Roo, approximately ninety km to the east of Chichén Itzá and approximately forty to the northwest of Tulum. Possible important Tulum  its name "cob" may possibility mean " what has dampness or moss " and "á" or "há" water, that is to say " it waters down with moss " or " water dampness ", another possibility is:" turbid water " because it is near to a few small lakes with a very turbid color.

·         Uxmal

Uxmal is an ancient Mayan city of the classic period. At present it is one of the most important archaeological deposits of the Mayan culture, together with those of Chichén Itzá and Tikal. It is located in the so called zone Puuc and is the most representative city of this architectural style. It is located to 62 km to the south of Merida, the capital of the state of Yucatan in Mexico. ITs edification stand out for its size and decoration.

·         Chichén Itzá

Chichén Itzá (Maya: " In the shore of the Well of the water wizards ". Huasteco: “Serpent Adorned with feathers ") it is one of the principal archaeological places  of the peninsula of Yucatan, in Mexico located in Tinum's municipality, in the state of Yucatan. Important and renowned vestige of the Mayan civilization, the principal remained buildings correspond to the decline epoch of the proper Mayan culture named by the archeologists in the postclassical period. The god who presides at the place, according to the Mayan mythology, is Kukulcán, Mayan representation of Quetzalcóatl, a god taken from the pantheon of the Toltec culture.

Chichén Itzá's archaeological zone was registered in the list of the Heritage Humanity by the UNESCO on July 1988.3 7, 2007, it was recognized as one of the “wonders of the world.”

·         Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan (Place where gods are made) was one of Mesoamérica's major cities during the pre-Hispanic epoch. The remains of the city are to the North-East of the valley of Mexico, in Teotihuacan's municipality (the state of Mexico), approximately 45 kilometres of distance from downtown of Mexico

·         Cholula

Cholula's archaeological zone (Place of those who fled) is a historical place located AT seven kilometres the west of Saragossa, the capital of the Mexican Populates state. It is a question of one of the most ancient accessions of Mexico, and presents a constant occupation from the pre-classic superior period.

·         The Tajín

The Tajín is a pre-Columbian archaeological zone near Papantla's city, Veracruz, Mexico and poza rica ,Veracruz, Mexico. Tajín's city was the capital of the state Totonaca. Tajín means City or Place of the thunder in the language totonaca.

·         Monte Albán

Monte Albán is an archaeological site located AT 10 km from Oaxaca de Juárez's city. In accordance with some sources, the original name was Dani Baá. It is known, on the other hand, that the mixtecos knew the city as Yucucúi (Yúcu-cúi, ' Green Hill ')

·         La venta

La Venta is an archaeological zone located in the extreme northwest of Tabasco's Mexican state in Huimanguillo's municipality, to a few fifteen kilometres away the coast of mexican’s gulf. La venta is the principal archaeological place of the Olmec culture, and it had its glorious epoch between 900 B.C. and 400 B.C. It gets up on an island in the middle of the swampy region that trains the river Tonalá, which marks the border between Tabasco and Veracruz. The surface of the island is approximately 5, 2 km ² away. In the center of the island, the buildings form a seat in the shape of irregular rectangle, with a principal pyramid located in the center, and mounds and monuments in the north and in the south.

·         Calakmul

Calakmul ("City of both Adjacent Pyramids") is an urban pre-Hispanic MayaN center placed in the south-east of Campeche's Mexican state, in the region of the Petén Campechano, in the core of the Reserve of Calakmul's Biosphere of 1.800.000 acres and at a few km from the border with Guatemala. The place possesses approximately 70 km ² and more than 6.000 structures.

Flores Cruz Claudia