Museo del Templo Mayor

Museo del Templo Mayor is a famous tourist destination and one of the major attractions in Mexico featuring so many exciting things for the tourists. Throughout the year many foreign as well as local tourists come to this place while traveling to all the famous tourist attractions of Mexico City. It is an exceptional indoor and outdoor museum that is displaying multiple layers of a modern day including an unfinished excavation of historical ‘The Great Temple’that belongs to the pre Hispanic civilization. The Templo Mayor is a famous as well as interesting tourist destination and it is commonly known by the name of ‘Great Temple’. It was the primary temple of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.

The temple is 197 ft high above the ritual precinct of the city. It is no doubt an interesting tourist destination. If you are planning a trip to Mexico and want to explore the place in a different way, then you must visit this historical temple that was destroyed in the year 1521, after the conquest of the Aztec empire by the Spanish conquistadors under the control of Herní¡n Cortes.

Many small buildings as well as platforms connected to the Great Temple and that formed a closely-covered complex around its main base. As it has its own historical significance, so tourists who have keen interest in history would definitely be satisfied after visiting this famous temple. Between the years 1978 to 1987, the Templo Mayor was excavated by a successful major project that was directed by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma.

The famous Museo del Templo Mayor museum was inaugurated on 12th October, 1987. From its inauguration, the museum has been exhibiting as well as preserving all the important archaeological materials that were excavated during the project Templo Mayor.

The Museo del Templo Mayor features total eight rooms and all the rooms display thousands of objects collected from various places across Mexico. Not only archaeological materials, the museum also displays reliefs, sculptures and many other interesting things found in that local area.

The most important features of Templo Mayor are the two shrines. Between these two shrines, one is dedicated to the god of war Huizilopochtli and another one is dedicated to the rain god who was known as Tlí¡loc.

During your trip to Mexico City, you must visit all of these tourist attractions with your family or friends and enjoy a memorable trip to Mexico.