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The Templo Mayor (English: Main Temple) was the main temple of the Mexica people in their capital city of Tenochtitlan, which is now Mexico City. Its architectural style belongs to the late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica .
Feb 5, 2016 · The Templo Mayor or Great Temple (called Hueteocalli by the Aztecs) dominated the central sacred precinct of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. Topped by twin temples dedicated to the war god Huitzilopochtli...
Nov 24, 2020 · The Templo Mayor site is in the historic heart of the city, just off the Zocalo and next to the imposing Spanish baroque Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven.
The Templo Mayor Museum was inaugurated in 1987. This building was designed to exhibit the archaeological findings of the zone that used to be the Main Temple of Mexica peoples. The collection shows the political, military and aesthetic relevance of the city that dominated Mesoamerica before the Spaniards arrived.
Templo Mayor, archaeological site located, just off Mexico City’s Plaza de la Constitución, of the Templo Mayor, or the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlán. Excavation of the temple, which was first constructed about 1325, began in 1978.
Dec 6, 2023 · The Templo Mayor was a twin temple devoted to the Aztecs’ two main deities: Huitzilopochtli, the god of war and a sun god, and the god Tlaloc, who was a rain and agricultural deity. [1:16] The Templo Mayor was part of this larger sacred precinct that included a variety of buildings, including temples to other important deities, like the ...
Sep 2, 2021 · El Templo Mayor, originally called huei teocalli in Nahuatl, is located smack bang in what is now the center of modern day Mexico City. Widely considered one of the most important Aztec archaeological sites in the capital, it’s a tourist hot spot.
