About Great Pyramid of Cholula, Puebla, Mexico:
In the Cholula which is a small town is located a huge temple pyramid complex is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, to Mexico City on the old highway of Puebla outside of ten minutes.
The history of the Great Pyramid of Cholula:
A large city was the Cholula in pre-Colombian times and of highland Mexico the religious capital. The 2nd century BC around the beginning in four stages was undertaken on the Great Pyramid of Cholula the construction. To the deity Quetzalcoatl it was dedicated.
From the Classic period date the first two stages, at c.100 BC of Teotihuacan as the pyramids the same time at about was built the earliest pyramid, of Teotihuacan motif characteristic of the talud tablero it has and in black, red and yellow with insect like design is painted, also in the style of Classic Teotihuacan. To the Teotihuacan was a sister city that the Cholula to conclude some scholars have led these strong similarities.
The first one right over was built at Cholula the second Great Pyramid and Teotihuacan forms imitated no longer. All four sides covering with stairs a radial pyramid created the builders so that from any direction could be approached the summit. On each side it was about 180 meters or 590 feet long.
Around 1200 this region after conquered the Toltecs, as the ceremonial center of their the present town square under the Temple of Quetzalcoatl they used, as a monumental ruin the Great Pyramid leaving. Took over the Cholula the enemies of the Aztecs the kingdom of Huexotzingo. At Cholula the Spanish conquered by the time, for so long had been a ruin the Great Pyramid that a natural hill it was they thought.
At the Great Pyramid of Cholula what to see:
Known as the Nuestra Senora de los Remedios by a church crowned a grassy hill looks like just the Great Pyramid. But beside it the unreconstructed pyramid if you climb, of the original structure the geometrical outline you can see plainly, in four levels from the ground which rises.
From the valley of Mexico this valley which separates the snow-capped volcano which is majestic at El Popocatepetl a good look you also get from this viewpoint. In the world the largest pyramid is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, than the Great Pyramid of Egypt in volume much larger. At 4.45 million cubic meters is estimated the total volume of its, of 66 meters with the height and of 450x450 meters a base.
Of the pyramid of the lower segments of one the one side have reconstructed archaeologists and into the pyramid of tunnels some five miles have dug which to explore are free for the visitors. Human figures of life sized featuring multicolored mural which is about 50 meter or 165 feet long at Cholula by the archaeologist uncovered among the artifacts. The Classic period from thought to date, ‘The Drunkards’ the title has been given the mural, of inebriation and drinking is one the scene. Alcohol may not be in the mural depicted the liquid, but from mushrooms or peyote even derived a potion of hallucinogenic.
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