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Templo Mayor
A museum worth the hours · Mexico City, Mexico
Photo: José Luiz · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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The experience
The excavated main temple of Aztec Tenochtitlan, rediscovered in 1978 just off the Zócalo behind the cathedral. A raised walkway crosses the ruins of the twin pyramids dedicated to Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc, and an adjoining museum holds artefacts pulled from the site, including the great Coyolxauhqui monolith. It is the clearest place to see the pre-Hispanic city beneath the colonial one.
You walk directly over Aztec temple foundations metres from the main square, then see the finds next door.
Aztec ruinsopen-air archaeologyon-site museumlayered history
Where it is
Mexico City, Mexico · Centro Histórico. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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