"Cholula" is translated from the Nahuatl language as "water that falls on the place of escape." This is related to the arrival groups valley Toltecs after their expulsion from Tula around 1,000 AD. Precisely the Toltecs who formed here the largest ceremonial center of Anahuac, turning Cholula in the "Holy City".
One of the monuments that characterizes this city is its great pyramid topped by a shrine to the Virgin of the Remedies. With the conquest it became the symbol of the superposition of the Catholic Church on the largest pyramid in the world dedicated to the God Quetzalcoatl indigenous.
The Great Pyramid we now see like a natural hill offers an important view aa mass of 62 mts. formed by high adobe bricks for the base measures approx. 400 mts. per side is considered the world's largest total
The Pyramid has been explored through tunnels and overlays have discovered several constructive. As elsewhere in Mexico, each new culture that came to a city covered in the above. Thus in Cholula different architectures found in the pyramid in flats overlapping of different styles to include the Olmeca and Teotihuacan.
