Main Entrance

Palenque


Main entrance to the ruins with snack bars. You're likely to be launched upon by guides; ensure they are the registered guides, identifiable by their ID cards.


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1. Templo de la Calavera

0.07 MILES

Also called Templo XII, this temple takes its popular name from the relief sculpture of a rabbit or deer skull at the foot of one of its pillars.

3. Templo XI

0.08 MILES

Overgrown and of little interest, Templo XI is the first structure you'll see entering the site from the main entrance.

4. Templo de las Inscripciones Group

0.09 MILES

As you walk in from the entrance the vegetation suddenly peels away to reveal many of Palenque’s most magnificent buildings in one sublime vista. A line…

5. Templo XIII

0.09 MILES

This temple contains the tomb of a female dignitary, whose remains were found colored red (as a result of treatment with cinnabar) when unearthed in 1994…

6. Palenque Ruins

0.12 MILES

Ancient Palenque stands at the precise point where the first hills rise out of the Gulf coast plain, and the dense jungle covering these hills forms an…

7. Templo de las Inscripciones

0.12 MILES

Perhaps the most celebrated burial monument in the Americas, this is the tallest and most stately of Palenque’s buildings. Constructed on eight levels,…

8. Tower

0.14 MILES

Built in the 8th century by Ahkal Mo’ Nahb’ III and restored in 1955, the tower has remnants of fine stucco reliefs on the walls, but you’re not allowed…

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