El Tajin in Mexico

El Tajin - an ancient archaeological site, located in the Mexican state of Veracruz. "Tajin" means "city (or place) of Thunder" at the Totonac language. Construction of the city of El Tajin, I dated a century of our era. The heyday of El Tajin was in the IX-XIII centuries. For more than 15 centuries, the city withstood many attacks from the other peoples living in the vicinity of El tahini, however, completely captured by the El Tajin was the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the XVI century. In those days it was an important center in the north-east of Central America.
The so-called "ceremonial center" of the city includes a number of pyramidal temples. The most popular of them - Pyramid of the Niches («Pyramid with niches"). It consists of six terraces and reaches 18 meters in height. The pyramid of neatly stacked cut stone blocks, creating a series of 365 niches (a number equal to the number of days per year). On the eastern side of the pyramid is a staircase leading to its summit. "The pyramid of niches," considered a masterpiece of ancient Mexican and American architecture and has a symbolic and astronomical significance.