Mexico Travel Guía

The ancient city mozateca of Montealbán, it rises on a hill of 400 meters of altitude, very close to the city of Oaxaca. It is a question of one of the most important deposits of Mexico, which offers a few spectacular vitas. Do not get lost it in your trip to Mexico!

It is a question of a deposit zapoteca, whose origins go back to the year 500 a.c but 700 would not be even a.c when it was reaching its biggest splendor. Really almost all the ruins that we will find in ours visit date of this epoch, in which the city reached 25.000 inhabitants.

Many of its buildings made themselves up of red and along our trip we will be able to find several structures of slope - board that show the tehotihuacán influence. In addition to buildings, Monte Albán is characterized for having numerous graves, many of them closed to the public because of conservation. Although if we are lucky, we will be able to observe someone, like the grave 105. Located under one of the biggest palaces - residences of Monte Albán, if we can visit it, we will observe a procession of figures, which are representations of nine gods of the death.

In the entry there is a museum that he is worth visiting, with sculptures found in the deposit and a series of explanations that insurance help us to know this deposit, one of the most important historical-cultural legacies of Mexico.