- What remains of the Aztecs’ Great Temple (Templo Mayor) sits right in the middle of Mexico City, but many tourists miss it.
- The Templo Mayor is the site of the main Aztec temple of Tenochtitlan. It was destroyed by the Spanish in 1521, who replaced it with the Catedral Metropolitano de...
- Stories of the discoveries of Aztec sites in Mexico City are often epic, and the story of the Templo Mayor’s uncovering is the most epic of all.
- The city was conquered by Hernán Cortés in 1521, and he subsequently razed much of it to the ground – including the Templo Mayor.
- Templo Mayor (translation: main temple) was the centerpiece of Tenochtitlán, the ancient Aztec capital, constructed in 1325 in the marshes of Lake Texcoco.
- ...and museum is east of the cathedral, across the hectic Plaza del Templo Mayor, where it's possible to see much of the exterior of the Templo without entering.
- The Templo Mayor (“Main Temple”) was one of the main temples of the Aztecs in their capital city of Tenochtitlan, which is now Mexico City.
- Sporadic excavations since the end of the 19th century / beginning of the 20th century, brought to light only some remnants of the Templo Mayor.
- Work on the principal temple – Huei Teocalli in the Aztec’s Nahuatl language, or Templo Mayor in Spanish – began soon after the foundation of Tenochtitlan.