- ...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.
- 1. It is a hard to find the entrance to this museum--it is underneath Templo Mayor. ... We found the Templo Mayor the best of the various sites to visit in Mexico City.
- Templo Mayor (translation: main temple) was the centerpiece of Tenochtitlán, the ancient Aztec capital, constructed in 1325 in the marshes of Lake Texcoco.
- 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.
- What remains of the Aztecs’ Great Temple (Templo Mayor) sits right in the middle of Mexico City, but many tourists miss it.
- 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.
- Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank: [0:15] When you are on site at the Templo Mayor today, it can be a bit disorienting because the temple itself is not complete anymore.
- Before Spanish colonization, Templo Mayor served as the religious center for the Aztec people. When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the early 16th century...
- Sporadic excavations since the end of the 19th century / beginning of the 20th century, brought to light only some remnants of the Templo Mayor.