Tula, formally, Tula DE Allende, could be a city and one in every of the eighty four municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. It’s placed some one hundred kilometre to the nor’-nor’-west of Ciudad de Mexico. It covers a part of the southeastern portion of the pre-Columbian town.
Nearby area unit the remains of the traditional capital town of the Toltecs, additionally referred to as “Tula” or as “Tollan”. Typically known because the Toltec capital around 980 atomic number 58, town was destroyed at it slow between 1168 and 1179. Tula became the capital town following Teotihuacan, though it ne’er reached constant size as a result of competitory cities within the space.
The site is at and round the junction of 2 rivers, the Río Rosas and also the Río Tula. The 2 largest clusters of grand ceremonial design area unit nicknamed “Tula Grande” (the most visited by tourists) and “Tula Chico”. Remains of alternative buildings extend for a few distance altogether directions. Within the residential areas streets were arranged get in a grid pattern.
The core of Tula was a city district containing pyramids, ball courts, and huge columned halls. Toltec design is distinctive, that includes details that indicate Toltec influence after they crop up elsewhere at sites as distant because the Yucatán land and also the United States Southwest.
The site was extensively ransacked in Aztec times, with a lot of of the design and sculpture carted off. Human figures referred to as “atlantids” served as main pillars within the temple that stood atop the most pyramid. The doorway was flanked by pillars carved within the style of the feathered serpent god immortal. The serpent pillars area unit currently missing.
Parts of the location area unit open for tourer visits, and Tula incorporates a little depository.
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