Top 10 famous tourist attractions in Mexico

Mexico is an ancient civilization in the Americas. It once bred ancient Indian cultures such as Maya, Aztec, Tortec, Olmega and Teotihuacan. 21 monuments have been declared by the United Nations as "human culture and natural heritage". The Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon, built north of Mexico City before BC, are representatives of this splendid ancient culture.

Mexico City is located in the center of the plateau region in central Mexico. It is the capital of Mexico and the country's political, economic, cultural and transportation center. It is also one of the largest cities in the world. The city is home to about one-half of the country's industrial, commercial, service and banking and financial institutions. It is a highly developed city in Mexico.

Mexico City is surrounded by green mountains. Due to its high terrain, it is extremely cold in winter and no scorching heat in summer. Flowers bloom all year round, green all year round, and the scenery is beautiful. Mexico City is a world-famous tourist city with many scenic spots and historic sites. Constitution Square is the center of Mexico City. The square is surrounded by the National Palace, municipal buildings, museums and cathedrals. All kinds of buildings blend the past and present, and have unique scenery.

The ruins of ancient Aztec culture in the city, European-style palaces and churches during the Spanish colonial period and high-rise buildings built after independence complement each other, forming a historical picture of the Mexican nation. The tourist center of Mexico City is Chapultepec Park, a secluded place preserved in the densely populated, bustling and bustling downtown area. It is called the "Lung of Mexico City." Well-known monuments in the suburbs include the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon, which attract thousands of tourists every day.

Mexico City is known as the "Capital of Murals" and contains 80% of the murals in Mexico. As long as you stroll in Mexico City, brightly colored and magnificent murals will come into your eyes from time to time. They have long become an indispensable part of people's daily lives in Mexico City and a beautiful scenery that attracts tourists.

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Mexico City Bullring It is said that many of the world's top bullfighters started in Spain in March, moved to Lima in October, and then returned to Mexico to end the year of bullfighting. Mexicans like to watch bullfights. During the bullfighting season, the bullring is always packed. Speaking of the bullring, we have to talk about the world's largest bullring-the Mexico City Bullring.

The Mexico City Bullring opened in 1946 and is the largest bullring in the world, satisfying the wishes of 41262 to watch the game here. This huge bullring has 58 floors of stands. The bullfighting season in Mexico is from November to March of the following year. Many foreign tourists come to the bullring at this time to see the style of Mexican bullfighters. The fat and strong bullfight and the agile bullfighters fought a wonderful battle in the bullring. Although the whole process was dangerous and exciting, it was extremely exciting. The audience watching the game can fully appreciate the rough and brave spirit of the Mexicans. In addition to being a bullfighting venue, the Mexico City Bullring is also used for boxing matches.​

Plaza de la Constitucin is located in the center of Mexico City, also known as Plaza Centrale or Zocalo Square. There is a huge Mexican flag in the center of Syntagma Square, surrounded by important buildings including the National Palace, the Supreme Court and the Cathedral. Many traditional clothing vendors dressed in Indian costumes and colorful Indian folk artists are the unique scenery on the square.

The National Palace, located on the east side of Syntagma Square, is a silent witness of Mexico's vicissitudes. The National Palace was originally built by the Aztec emperor Moctezuma II in the 16th century. After the arrival of the Spaniards, they located the Governor's Office in this former imperial palace and converted it into a palace with a wide atrium. After Mexico's independence, it became the seat of the presidential palace. This building, which has always been the center of the country at different times, has undergone several changes in its occupants, witnessing the change of Mexican rulers.

The National Palace has a total of 14 courtyards. In addition to the Presidential Office, there is also a museum here. But what attracts tourists most about the National Palace is the huge historical murals created by Mexican muralist Diego Rivera between 1929 and 1935. The murals cover the four walls of the central courtyard of the National Palace and are brightly colored, describing Mexico's entire historical development trajectory, with the descriptions of the Quetzsche god, the Spaniard Cotez and the War of Independence particularly outstanding. In addition, the National Palace was also the place where the bell of Mexico's independence sounded in 1810. The bell of independence sounded by Father Hidalgo, the father of Mexico's independence, and is still preserved on the balcony of the door of the National Palace.

North of Syntagma Square lies the Catedral Metropolitana, the largest Catholic church in Latin America. The cathedral was built by the Spaniards in 1573 and was not completely completed until 1813. The long construction time allowed the cathedral to include various architectural styles such as classical Baroque and neo-classical. The main body of the cathedral consists of towering bell towers on both sides and a wide main hall in the middle. The bell tower is 67 meters high and the main hall is 110 meters wide. In addition to the ancient statues and furniture preserved in 16 chapels, the most eye-catching thing in the church is the brilliant and colorful murals of the Bible stories on the top. It is said that the cathedral is located in the center of the largest Catholic parish.

Magic Market

The Magic Market is located in Sonora, Mexico. It is a strange, mysterious, and gloomy market. This market is extraordinary and very different from other markets. Other markets sell some flowers, fruits, food, birds and insects, etc., while the Magic Market sells mysterious banners, magical medicines, snake blood, hummingbird corpses, etc. The market is not large, but it is very prosperous, attracting many domestic and foreign tourists.

The weird witches sat in front of the small stall and claimed that for just 10 US dollars, about 68 yuan, the pain caused by poverty and disloyalty could be wiped out and the tourists could achieve happiness. It was very magical. The small shop in the magic market is filled with witches of different colors, different gloomy, and scary expressions. They hold magic balls in their left hands and magic wands in their right hands, showing a smile of 0, as if to summon people's pure souls, which is very scary. They are of different sizes, but their expressions all give people a sense of malicious smiles, like demons that suck souls. In addition, skulls and other horrific objects are also placed in the store. After visiting such a terrifying market, I wonder if I will dream of a witch who summons souls at night!

Mexico Underwater Sculpture Museum

The Mexican Undersea Sculpture Museum is located in Mexico's National Marine Park on the west bank of Muguiles Island. The permanent Undersea Sculpture Museum was built here in 2009 to commemorate the region's Mayan history while diverting tourists 'attention from coral reefs. Move to these sculptures. According to statistics, 750,000 people visit coral reefs on the seabed every year, causing tremendous pressure on coral reefs.

The Underwater Sculpture Museum consists of 403 life-size sculptures and is one of the largest and most ambitious underwater world artificial art attractions in the world. These 403 sculptures are of various shapes and rich expressions. They were created by the British sculptor Jason DeKales Taylor. They are placed on the seabed of the Caribbean Sea and cover an area of more than approximately 420 square meters. The sculpture is placed 9 meters underwater and weighs more than 180 tons. Tourists can visit it on a glass-bottomed boat. In addition to the spectacular sculptures, tourists can also get in close contact with the fish above the sculptures.​

The ancient city of Chichen Itsa, the city of the "feathered snake", Chichen Itsa is the largest and most prosperous city-state in the ancient Maya country. Once upon a time, the Mayans built many important buildings out of stone here. Now, this is a must-visit place to explore the relics of Mayan civilization. Chichen Itsa is an ancient Mayan urban site located in southern Yucatan, Mexico. It is 3 kilometers long from north to south and 2 kilometers wide from east to west. It has hundreds of buildings and is a site of ancient Mayan culture and Tortek culture.

"Qiqin" means "wellhead", and natural wells are the foundation of building a city. Existing roads divide it in half. The old Qichen Itsa on the south side was built in the seventh to tenth centuries AD and has Mayan cultural characteristics. It has pyramid temples, pillar halls, courts, markets and astronomical observatory, and is mainly decorated with stone carvings; the new Qichen Itsa on the north side is gray buildings with Tortek cultural characteristics, including the Kukurkan Pyramid, the Warrior Temple, etc., mainly decorated with simple lines and plaster carvings of the Feather Snake God.

Teotihuacan

The "city created by the gods"-the holy city "Teotihuacan" was built from the 1st to the 7th century AD. Its buildings are laid out according to geometric figures and symbolic meanings, and are famous for their huge momentum, especially the Moon Pyramid and the Sun Pyramid. The ancient city of Teotihuacan is an important site of Indian civilization. It is located about 40 kilometers northeast of Mexico City, the capital of Mexico. During its prosperous sixth and seventh centuries, the city had a population of 200,000, and its scale was comparable to Chang 'an in China at that time. In 1987, UNESCO listed the ancient city of Teotihuacan as a cultural heritage and included it on the World Heritage List.

To the west of Moon Square, stands the most luxurious building in the ancient city-the "Butterfly Palace", which is where religious upper-class people and dignitaries live. The murals in the palace are intact and maintain their original bright colors. The columns in the central hall are engraved with an embossed of butterfly wings and bird bodies. A beautiful bird is carved on the west pillar, with wings spread out, as if flying head-on. The ruins tourists see today are only a small part of the magnificent appearance of Teotihuacan.

In fact, nine-tenths of the entire city are still buried in the soil. The grandeur and size of the Teotihuacan building and the age of its construction far exceed people's imagination. And its inexplicable decline is even more incomprehensible. This mysterious "City of Gods" has left a huge question mark for future generations.

Sun-Moon Pyramid The Sun Pyramid (Piramide de Sol) and the Pirmid de la Luna (Piramid de la Luna) are representative buildings of the ancient ruins of Teotihuacan. Teotihuacan, listed on the World Heritage List in 1987, is a magnificent monument 40 kilometers northeast of Mexico City. It surprised the Aztecs who rediscovered it in the 15th century and called it the "Capital of the Gods"(Teotihuacan). Among the many buildings in Teotihuacan, the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon have become powerful witnesses of the glorious period of the city-state of Teotihuacan that began in 100 AD.

The Pyramid of the Sun, located on the east side of Teotihuacan Avenue of the Dead, was built around the 2nd century AD. It is the third largest pyramid in the world and the largest building in Teotihuacan. The square base of the Sun Pyramid is 225 meters ×222 meters in size, and the five-story tower body has a total height of 63 meters. This huge building with a volume of 1 million cubic meters is built with 2.5 million tons of soil and gravel in addition to the outer wall of volcanic stone carved with gorgeous patterns. Unfortunately, when the Pyramid of the Sun was restored in the 20th century, the architect Leopoldo Barterres built an additional layer between the original 4th and 5th floors and rebuilt the east, south and north exterior walls of the pyramid. To a certain extent, it destroyed the original appearance of the Pyramid of the Sun.

The Pyramid of the Sun contains many mysteries that are still difficult to solve. In 1971, people discovered that the other end of the underground passage from a cave in Tasi to the tower was connected to a huge cave composed of four inner chambers at the center of the Sun Pyramid. In addition to mirrors and other handicrafts and sacrificial objects in the inner chamber, a drainage system composed of stone water pipes inside the pyramid was also discovered. The complexity and exquisiteness of its construction is amazing. At noon of the Spring and Autumn Equinox every year, a straight shadow that gradually brightens will always appear on the first level on the west side of the Pyramid of the Sun, and the light change time is always 66.6 seconds. Therefore, some people call it the eternal clock.

The Pyramid of the Moon is located at the northern end of Undead Avenue. It was built about 200 years later than the Pyramid of the Sun. The tower base is 150 meters ×120 meters, the four-story tower is 46 meters tall, and has a volume of 380,000 cubic meters. It is made of about 1 million tons of soil and gravel, and the outer wall is also decorated with gorgeous pictures. Although the Moon Pyramid is small in scale, it is well constructed, and each of its more than 200 steps has a different inclination angle. Standing on the vast Plaza de la Luna in front of the tower stands the beautiful Palace of Birdflies, which is also one of the main relics of Teotihuacan.

Ertazin Ancient City Site

The ruins of the ancient city of El Tazin are located on a sloping hillside near the town of Papantra in northern Veracruz, surrounded by tobacco plantations, banana plantations, beekeepers and vanilla plantations. The ancient city of Ertazin is one of the few buildings in the Mayan civilization and is the best choice to understand ancient Mayan architecture.

The charm of the ancient city lies in the fact that a building that has existed for a long enough time has a sense of time. In 1992, it was included in the World Heritage List according to the cultural heritage selection criteria. The ancient city of Ertazin consists of luxuriously decorated public squares and pyramids, the most famous of which is the ruins known as the "niche pyramid". The temples here are small in scale, but they are exquisitely shaped, gorgeous in appearance, and well-paved.

Exquisite murals, carvings and painted pottery can be seen from the site, which are treasures of ancient Indian culture. This well-preserved site is distinctive in terms of artistic and architectural value, proving the greatness of Mexico's Colombia culture.

Naika Crystal Cave Naika Crystal Cave is located in the Chihuahuanaika Mine in Mexico. It was first discovered in 2000. It originated from two miners who accidentally discovered it while digging a tunnel 300 meters deep underground because the mining company pumped water. Naika Crystal Cave is the largest underground crystal cave in the world. It is about 27 meters long, 9 meters wide, up to 1000 feet deep, and meanders 0.5 miles underground.

The crystal feels cold, but on the contrary, the cave is sultry and humid. The temperature remains around 58 ° C all year round, and the humidity is 100%. You need to wear protective clothing with high-tech cooling functions to enter the cave. There are many huge crystals in the cave, stretching in all directions, some of which are the largest crystals ever found, located on ancient faults. The water in the cave is almost half a million years old, and they provide a good environment for the formation of giant crystals.

The rock wall is very wet and covered with clusters of flawless crystals, as sharp as blades. There are as many as 170 huge and glowing obelisks in the cave, scattered around the cave like intertwined light beams. The largest one is about 11.4 meters long. Naika Crystal Cave is unique in the world and shows its beauty to people with its special attitude.