Posts in Tag: Tenochtitlan
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Templo Mayor – Mexico City’s Aztec Centrepiece
Tenochtitlan was the most important city in the Aztec, or more properly Mexica, empire and with a population of between 200,000 and 300,000, one of the largest cities in the world when Hernan Cortés arrived in 1521. The Spaniards were simply blown away, not only by its size, but by the beauty and majesty of […]