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Teotihuacan
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The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Teotihuacan, an ancient Toltec city and its Pyramid of the Sun [65metres high, 200 metres long on each side], the second largest pyramid in the Americas after Mexico's mostly hidden Great Pyramid of Cholula

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Popocatepetl volcano, ancient pyramid inspiration, seen by plane approaching Mexico City. The name means 'Smoking Mountain' in Nahuatl, an Aztec language.

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Teotihuacan, the Avenue of the Dead,  Mexico City

A view down Teotihuacan's main street, the Avenue of the Dead, from the Pyramid of the Moon. On the mid-left is the Pyramid of the Sun. Photo © Jack Hynes.

Mural depicting the Great Goddess of Teotihuacan,  Mexico City

A reproduction of a mural depicting the Great Goddess of Teotihuacan from the Tepantitla apartment complex located at Teotihuacan. The mural is in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Picture © Thomas Aleto.

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The Pyramid of the Moon [47 metres high], the broad Avenue of the Dead on a Mexican festival day and the typically pushy trinket-seller.

Teotihuacan was built between 600BC and 200BC by the Toltecs [not to be confused with the Aztecs]. Teotihuacan roughly translates as The Place where Gods Gathered. It is a bleak and blasted city of ghosts these days with most of its buildings [the mud and wooden ones] returned to dust, but the site is still awesome in its scale and the pyramids are unbelievable, in spite of the fact that - unlike their Egyptian counterparts - they are not solid stone but earth and rubble mounds dressed with stone.
Teotihuacan is roughly 50kms outside Mexico City so an absolute must-see for capital visitors.

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