Historic sites in Mexico

Historical sites in Mexico : Site Index

• Alhondiga de Granaditas
  Alhondiga de Granaditas was the site of a rebel attack against the Spanish in the Mexican War of Independence.
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• Calixtlahuaca
  Calixtlahuaca is an Aztec archaeological site near Toluca in Mexico.
  Photo by liberalmind1012 (cc)

• Castillo de Chapultepec
  Chapultepec Castle was once the home of Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and now houses Mexico’s National History Museum
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• Chacchoben
  Chacchoben is a Maya site in Mexico housing some impressive pyramid temples.
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• Chichen Itza
  Chichen Itza is a site made up of two impressive and well preserved cities, built by the Mayas and then captured by the Toltecs.
  

• Cobá
  Cobá is an important and vast archaeological Maya site in Mexico’s Quintana Roo region.
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• Dzibilchaltun
  Dzibilchaltun in Mexico is an archaeological site housing the ruins of a Maya settlement.
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• Ek Balam
  Ek Balam is a Maya site on the Yucatan Peninsula with some impressive ruins.
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• El Tajin
  El Tajin in Mexico was a city of the Totonac people and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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• El Tepozteco
  El Tepozteco is a small Aztec temple in Tepoztlan, Mexico.
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• Ex-Convent de Churubusco
  Ex-Convent de Churubusco was the site of a Mexican defeat in the Mexican-American War and now houses Mexico City’s National Museum of the Interventions.
  Photo by Catedrales e Iglesias (cc)

• Fort Loreto
  Fort Loreto is an eighteenth century fortress and one of the sites where the famous Battle of Puebla was fought.
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• Kabah
  The ruins of Kabah are those of a Maya settlement in Yucatan, Mexico.
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• Labna
  Labna is a Maya site in Yucatan State in Mexico.
  Photo by Olivier Bruchez (cc)

• Merida Cathedral
  Merida Cathedral in Mexico is the oldest one on the continent.
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• Mexico National Museum of Anthropology
  The Mexico National Museum of Anthropology is one of the world’s best renowned museums of pre-Hispanic history.
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• Mitla
  Mitla was a Zapotec religious centre later taken over by the Mixtecs in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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• Monte Alban
  Monte Alban is a remarkable UNESCO listed pre-Columbian site in Mexico.
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• Museo Casa de Hidalgo
  This museum in the town of Dolores Hidalgo is the former house of the priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, the father of the Independence movement in Mexico.
  

• Museo Regional de Oaxaca
  Museo Regional de Oaxaca houses many of the pre-Columbian finds from nearby Monte Alban.
  

• Palenque
  Palenque in Mexico is a UNESCO listed Maya archaeological site of a city which thrived between 500 and 700 AD.
  

• Piramide de Cuicuilco
  Cuicuilco is a Mesoamerican archeological site in Mexico City, believed to have been a large, ceremonial city that existed prior to the foundation of Teotihuacan.
  

• San Augustin
  The Temple of Saint Augustin is a sixteenth century monastery in Acolman in Mexico
  

• San Juan de Ulua
  San Juan de Ulua is a sixteenth century Spanish fort which defended the port of Veracruz in Mexico.
  

• Sayil
  Sayil in Mexico houses the ruins of a small Maya settlement built in the Puuc style.
  

• Templo Mayor
  Templo Mayor was a holy temple in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, now modern day Mexico City.
  

• Tenochtitlan
  Tenochtitlan was the Aztec capital, established in 1325AD and destroyed by the Spanish in the 16th century.
  

• Teotihuacan
  Teotihuacan is a well preserved ancient Mesoamerican city near Mexico City.
  Photo by Darij & Ana (cc)

• The National Palace of Mexico
  The National Palace of Mexico is an important landmark representing Mexico’s independence.
  

• Tulum
  Tulum is a cliff-top Maya site in Mexico’s Quintana Roo region with some interesting and quite well preserved ruins.
  

• Uxmal
  Uxmal was a Maya city in Yucatan, Mexico and is today a UNESCO World Heritage site.
  

• Xcaret
  Xcaret houses the ruins of a Maya city which reached its peak in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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• Xlapak
  Xlapak is a small archaeological site in Mexico’s Yucatan region.
  Photo by archer10 (Dennis) (cc)

• Xochicalco
  Xochicalco is an important pre-Columbian site in Mexico and a World Heritage site.
  Photo by Christian González Verón (cc)

• Yagul
  Yagul was a fortified Zapotec settlement in Oaxaca in Mexico.
  Photo by maximalideal (cc)