Skip the Line: Templo Mayor Museum Entrance Ticket

Visit: Museo del Templo Mayor, Seminario 8 Centro Histórico, Mexico City 06060 Mexico

Enjoy a complete visit, at your pace, to the last vestiges of Mexico City’s pre-Hispanic heritage. The Site Museum of Templo Mayor is known as where the Aztec empire was once seated. Appreciate the evolution of Mexico City’s Historic Center as you stroll through the halls of Templo Mayor. This was one of the main temples of the Aztecs in their capital city of Tenochtitlan, which is now Mexico City. Its architectural style belongs to the late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica.

The temple was dedicated simultaneously to two gods: Huitzilopochtli, god of war, and Tlaloc, god of rain and agriculture, each of which had a shrine at the top of the pyramid with separate staircases.

Construction of the first temple began sometime after 1325, and it was rebuilt six times. The temple was destroyed by the Spanish in 1521 to make way for the new cathedral. Today, the archeological site lies just to the northeast of the Zocalo, or main plaza of Mexico City, in the block between Seminario and Justo Sierra streets. The site is part of the Historic Center of Mexico City, which was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1987