Cholula Attractions

 
How to get there

By bus from Mexico City (Terminal del Oriente; about 1.5 hours) or Puebla (about 20 minutes); by car motorway from Mexico City to Puebla (126km/78mi), then a further 12km/7.5mi.

Occupying the same plateau as Puebla 12km/7.5mi away, Cholula was once one of the leading religious, economic and political centres of old Mexico. Today very little of its former splendour remains apart from a gigantic earth mound concealing, if scale is anything to go by, the world's largest pyramid. From the vantage point of the top, now crowned with a church, the eye travels over the towers and domes of numerous other Spanish-built churches and monasteries which, following the Conquest, were erected over the ancient pyramids and temples.

Read More San Gabriel Monastery and Capilla Real

The Capilla Real at the San Gabriel Monastery is designed after the great mosque in Córdoba, Spain.

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The Temple Pyramid at Cholulua is the largest of its kind in the world. Each side measure 425 m at the base, and it once stood more than 62 m high.
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