Home > Central America > Mexico > Yucatán Peninsula > Uxmal Ruin Complex > Uxmal Ruins - Nunnery Quadrangle (Cuadrángulo de las Monjas)
Page Rating
Content Quality:
Page Importance:
Page Importance:
Author Pick:
Close Map
Book a Hotel or Hostel
Hotels Hostels & Budget
Uxmal Ruins - Nunnery Quadrangle (Cuadrángulo de las Monjas) - Ruin - Mexico
To the Spanish this perfectly proportioned complex resembled a convent and so they called it a nunnery. Warriors might have studied here, or perhaps astronomers and astrologers. John Stephens captured the Nunnery’s grace in 1841: "...we enter a noble courtyard, with four great façades looking down upon it, each ornamented from one end to the other with the richest and most intricate carving known in the art of the builders of Uxmal; presenting a scene of strange magnificence.” (Stephens, Incidents of Travel in Yucatán, vol. 1, p. 177-178)
Ruin
Here are other activities in and around Uxmal Ruin Complex that may be of interest: Uxmal - Governor’s Palace (Palacio del Gobernador), Pyramid of the Magician (Pirámide del Adivino) and Uxmal Ruins - Other sites of interest.
View Mexico Map
South America | Central America and Mexico | Antarctica |
Advertise | Anúnciese | Jobs | Alliances | Alianzas | Terms of Use | Contact Us | About Us | Blog | Administradores |
Advertise | Anúnciese | Jobs | Alliances | Alianzas | Terms of Use | Contact Us | About Us | Blog | Administradores |
