Huey-Teocalli, the model of the Templo Mayor, in images

1 The buildings that surround the Plaza de la Constitución are decorated with Mexica iconography to pay homage to pre-Hispanic Mexico.

HECTOR GUERRERO

2Personal from the capital government carried out lighting tests on the esplanade of the Zócalo in Mexico City on August 11.

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3The model of the Templo Mayor is based on the latest research from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

HECTOR GUERRERO

4Women dressed in traditional costumes hold copal censers during an event to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlan.

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5 Workers give the last details of the construction of the model of a pyramid for the 500 years of indigenous resistance in the zocalo in Mexico City.

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6The scale reproduction measures 16 meters high, 25.81 meters wide and 27.17 meters deep of the most important building in the Mexican city.

HECTOR GUERRERO

7The accesses to visit the facility will be through the streets of November 20, the street of September 16, the pedestrian street of Madero from Avenida Juárez to the Zócalo, May 5 and República de Brasil.

HECTOR GUERRERO

8Among the decorations found in the Plaza de la Constitución is an image of the pre-Hispanic god Quetzalcóatl, also known as the "feathered serpent."

HECTOR GUERRERO

9 The head of government of Mexico City Claudia Sheinbaum today inaugurated the decorative lighting of the capital's zócalo.

HECTOR GUERRERO

10 Dozens of residents of the capital attended and witnessed the lighting of the decorative lighting.

HECTOR GUERRERO