Teotihuacan, City of Gods*

Last weekend I was in Teotihuacan, which is a place east of Mexico City.


You can find the most ancient pyramids of Mexico there and the whole place is very impressing. There are three main pyramids which are:

1. La Pirámide del Sol (Pyramid of the Sun)
2. La Pirámide de la Luna (Pyramid of the Moon)
3. La Pirámide de la Ciudadela (Pyramid of the Citadel)

The first has a hight of 63 metres. The second is about 40 metres high.

There are a number of smaller pyramids which all represent the planets. I found it very impressing that they know about our solar system already 300 BC (or a little later, around that year the constructions began).

The name Teotihuacan is of Aztec origin. The Teotihuacanas (name of the people that orignially lived in the city) lived already before the Aztecs but for a reason unknows they abandoned the city. Later the Aztecs found the city and believed it was the city of their gods. They also named the main street of the town "Avenue of the Dead" because they believed the small buildings along the street were the tombs of their former kings.

As you can see on the pictures the weather was very good and although I protected myself quite well from the sun, I ended with a little sunburn on a very strange place. The next day I had to wear my safety shoes which was painfull.

*There is no relation to the film "City of God" (Cidade de Deus) which I can recommend, however. People say it's similar in some parts of Mexico City.