Mexico City: Teotihuacan & Its Everyday Life With Historian – State of Mexico, Mexico

EXPERIENCE

Begin the visit by exploring the Quetzalcoatl temple, a wondrous plaza that served as a gathering place for the diverse groups that inhabited the city. Climb its temple and admire sacred art and sculpture that explains the foundational myths of the Mesoamerican cultures.

Continue the tour by wandering inside the Tetitla Palace, an habitational complex decorated with in situ murals of everyday life and religion, with moving, touching mysterious iconic paintings made with lush colors. An elaborate yet succinct introduction made with diagrams and images of the key concepts of Mesoamerican culture will be delivered by your guide, alongside an explanation of their everyday life, and their living spaces that will take place as we walk through the spaces of the palace and complex.

Wander around and admire two of the largest pyramids in all the Americas. Get to discover how these wonderful monuments were created, and dig deeper in its political, religious, and cosmological significance, as well as its mysteries and recent scientific and historical findings.

Finish this walking tour visiting the Tepantitla Palace, a site hosting the most impressive mural of all Teotihuacan: the mural of Tlalocan. In Aztec mythology, Tlalocan was the marvelous underworld ruled over by the water deity Tlaloc. In the painting, a number of small figurines seem to play or dance around a hill formed by waterfalls and rivers of water, in what is typically known as the “Paradise of Tlaloc.”

*The tour lasts from 5-6 hours

HIGHLIGHTS

Marvel at the centuries-old frescoes of Teotihuacan city
Explore the palaces and surroundings of this ancient city
Enjoy visiting this archeological site with an art historian
Learn all about the city through its art and architecture

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