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A Polish tourist who climbed the Kukulcan pyramid is punished with a stick

2023-01-30T13:59:20.689Z


Several visitors to the archaeological zone were outraged with a man and one even hit him with a stick for violating the rules and climbing the steps of the Chichén Itzá Castle to take photos.


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The esplanade of the archaeological zone of Chichén Itzá became a place of "punishment" again, after several national and foreign tourists shouted slogans and beat a visitor from Poland, who on Saturday climbed the steps of the Kukulcán Castle , violating the rules of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

Some visitors punished the Pole by hitting him with a stick for his audacity, while several questioned his actions, as it is a pre-Hispanic structure considered one of the new seven wonders of the modern world.

"The tourist who went up the west steps of the Castle without permission on Saturday, January 28, was arrested and after 12 hours of administrative arrest he was released," José Arturo Chab Cárdenas, head of the INAH Center, told the EFE news agency. Yucatan, about the first action of this type in this 2023.

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On November 21, a Tijuana woman went up to the Castle and was nearly lynched by several visitors, but the authorities did not report the punishment applied.

On that occasion, the Ministry of Culture of the Mexican Government only issued a statement informing that there was no damage to the majestic pre-Hispanic building, considered by the Mayans as a temple in honor of Kukulcán.

Cárdenas Chab said that the visitor from Poland was also fined 5,000 pesos (263 dollars), payment that was made in the Treasury box, located in the town hall of Tinum, municipality of Yucatán, where the archaeological zone is located. most visited in Mexico, according to the INAH.

About the visitor who violated the rules by climbing the steps of the Castle, it was reported that he accessed the unauthorized area "to take pictures and share them on social networks."

Although he achieved his goal, after two custodians of the site, which annually receives 2.6 million visitors, uploaded, INAH authorities asked the Pole to delete all the images captured.

File photo of tourists in front of the Temple of Kukulcan in Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, on December 8, 2022.Anadolu Agency / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

They ask to respect rules in Chichén Itzá

The case of the Polish tourist who went up without permission to the Kukulcán Castle is the first to be registered this 2023 in Chichén Itzá, for which the INAH authorities in Yucatán, headed by José Arturo Chab Cárdenas, ask visitors to respect the rules.

"Tourists must respect the security measures of the INAH in the archaeological zone to preserve the cultural heritage of Mexico, take care of other visitors and enjoy that Mayan legacy," he explained to EFE.

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The INAH reported in a statement that the monument did not suffer any alteration in its structure and that the administrative fault was imputed, as reported by Chab Cárdenas, for disobeying the guidelines established in accordance with the Federal Law on Archaeological, Artistic and Historical Monuments.

Since 2008, the Federal Law on Archaeological, Artistic and Historical Monuments establishes the prohibition of entering or climbing certain structures or spaces of archaeological zones in Mexico. 

Source: telemundo

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