| 02 August 2009
The doorway to another World…
Chichén Itza is the most beautiful vestige that left one of the most important prehispanic civilizations; the Mayan culture. Its name means Chichén (well border) and Itza (Water sorcerer) “In the well border of the water sorcerer” Located at Yucatan Peninsula, at south of Merida, this destination has a warm and dry weather and an annual temperature of 34º approximately.
The constructions in Chichén Itza show us the architectonic and iconographic elements of Puuc style (characteristic because of serpents’ shapes) even recently it had found elements from other cultures that cohabit with the Mayas, like the Toltecas culture and for that reason it has an owned architecture, different to other Mayan sites that have the same Puuc style.
It’s a mankind patrimony by UNESCO since 1988. And the last July 7th 2007 became one of the New World’s Seven Wonders.
The most famous Temple in Chichen Itza is Kukulcan (called the castle) A seven levels pyramid from XIII. There, the people used to render cult to the Feathered Serpent and also the agrarian calendar that show the spring equinox, it show us the exactly when the astronomic phenomenon starts, in the summer solstice one half of the calendar starts to be darkness while the other half lights up. It’s an amazing experiment for the people who that can see it and astound with this antique Mayan knowledge.
You ca also see the great Sacred Cenote, that is an enormous water mirror of 60m diameter. There had been found rings, necklaces, gold and jade objects, threw it as an offering; as the same as women bodies, also offered to the Rain Gods.
Chichen Itza is the perfect destination for you, a sensitive traveller to history and archaeology. For you that enjoy to admirate the amazing constructions built it for the disappeared cultures. A magic and mystical place, the doorway to an other world.