Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan: located 50 km  Northeast of Mexico City, this site belongs to the Teotihuacana culture, which had its blossoming between 250 AC and 850 DC. The greatness of this old prehispanic city is amazing, an example of this are its 24km² of surface of intensive occupation. This pre-Columbian city  was, among other things a ceremonial center, but was also the cultural, economic and political epicenter of mesomerica. Teotihuacan in the 7th century a.C.  it had population near the 150 thousand inhabitants, divided in four different etno-linguistic groups. The view that is perceived from top of the Pyramid of the Sun is impressive and includes the total set of the archaeological zone. Despite each monumental building of the old city deserves a particular attention, among these are, the Pyramid of the Moon, the Temple of Quetzalcoatl, the Road of Deads, the Temple of the Quetzalpapalotl, the Patio of the Jaguars and its temple etc. Throughout the Calzada de los Muertos, in both sides of it , there are platforms that supported temples in their upper part are that same road was also the main axis of the city. For the enthusiastic in archaeology it is highly recommended not to lose the museum of  the site and its extraordinary collection of pieces found in situ, to also see the scale model of the reconstituted city the scale.