Chichen Itza Ruins Travel Guide

Informally recognized as one of the seven New Wonders of the World, Chichen Itza rises in Tinum, near the heart of Yucatan. Another more thorough designation preceded it, when UNESCO included it in its World Heritage Site list in 1988. This decision, to be sure, was simple: throughout the nearly one thousand years of history, the city was chronicler of the Mayan civilization. Its architecture reveals the fusion with Toltec culture. In its layout and reliefs, a change in order is outlined, a precise science and a permanent message to the gods.