One of the favorite places for the people who travel to Mexico is enjoy a trip for Teotihuacán.
When the Aztecs arrived in the Valley of Mexico at the beginning of the 14th century on their mythical pilgrimage, they discovered the abandoned remains of this great city.
They seemed so enormous that they considered them the work of divine beings, and for this reason they gave it the name we now know: Teotihuacán, the “ Place where the gods were created ”.
The Aztecs continued on their way in search of a suitable place to build their capital, which they did in the place where Mexico City now stands, but they always returned to Teotihuacán as a pilgrimage destination.
Much of the history of Teotihuacán is still shrouded in mystery, since it is not even known what its name was, nor that of the civilization that built it.
The city must have risen to importance around the year 200 BC, reaching its peak between 350 and 650. It is likely that at that time it was a larger city than Imperial Rome.
Its cultural and political influence extended to places far apart from each other, being evident in some Mayan cities.
As far as is known, the city was about 36 square kilometers in size, and the monumental area that is currently visited barely occupies 10 percent.
Although at first archaeologists thought that Teotihuacán was the ritual and economic center of a peaceful civilization. the discovery of numerous remains of human sacrifices are changing this initial impression.
A characteristic of many Teotihuacán constructions, especially the pyramids, is that they were conceived with the principle known as talud-tablero in which inclined sections (talud) alternate with other horizontal ones (tablero).
The urban layout of Teotihuacán responds to a perfectly conceived criterion that was articulated around two large avenues that intersected perpendicularly.
One of them, the one that runs from north to south, is the so-called Calzada de los Muertos, which joins the main monumental places and is the axis of any route.
