If I were able to visit any Mesoamerican architectural site, I would have to choose Chichen Itza. This was one I thought I would want to visit before reading more in depth about it this week, but upon learning more about it, I found it even more interesting. The most interesting aspects I found this week are that it seems that Nahua-speaking Toltecs were living in Chichen Itza and thus are responsible for some of the architectural similarties that are found between Tula and Chichen Itza. This way, I feel like traveling in time back to Chichen Itza would allow me to experience not only some of the influences involved in the creation of the majesty of Chichen Itza itself, but also some of the wisdom behind the creation of Tula as well from the Toltecs that were influential in creating Tula that seem to have resided in Chichen Itza. The similarities in the architecture are so distinct that these parallels are able to be drawn, which in and of itself seems fascinating to me.
I've always been interested in the beauty of the Castillo, pictured below.
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