El Tajín is one of the most beautiful sites in the state of Veracruz, when you walk there you can feel the greatness of the people who lived there.
El Tajín is a pre-Columbian archaeological, located in the state of Veracruz, site near to Papantla, and Poza Rica.
The city of Tajín was the capital of Totonaca state. Tajín means City or Place of thunder in the Totonaca language. Also some people say that Tajín means the name of some totonaca god.
The construction of ceremonial Tajín probably started in the Century I. In the early classical period Tajín showed the influence of Teotihuacan; while in period showed postclásico influence Toltec.
The reconstruction beginning in the thirteenth century, at the same time El Tajín was destroyed by invaders Chichimecs, a few people who did not continue the construction of temples occupied this site. This site was completely uninhabited when the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the fifteenth century.
The trees quickly occupied the abandoned site. In 1785 the engineer Diego Ruiz visited the site and gave a description of this. In the nineteenth century William Dupaix, Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Nebel, who published his notes on the site, visited the site.
Joseph Garcia Payón made the first archaeological excavation from 1943 to 1963. The Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) made a restoration of the site in 1980.
Each year is celebrating “La Cumbre Tajín“, a cultural festival that connects those pleople who living in big cities on the planet with the cultures and ethnicities of Veracruz, Mexico and world.
Through a world-class event, which coincides with the spring equinox, Summit Tajín to disclose the natural and cultural attractions of Veracruz, shows the richness and traditions of ancient cultures alive on the planet, with a joyful and creative people as totonaca host.
