Travel Mexico and get a view of the most amazing buildings, palaces, pyramids ever created by man. There are a lot of styles in Mexico, some are ethnic like Maya architecture, some can be seen in other countries. Many of the Mexican buildings are erected in the flamboyant Latino American Baroque style. In Mexico city there is a great variety of styles, sometimes one building is erected in several styles, e.g. he Catedral Metropolitana was built in three styles mainly Gothic, Baroque and Neo-Classical, and the Palace of Fine Arts in Neo-Classical, Art-Nouveau and Art-Deco styles.
Nevertheless, Mexico is extremely famous for its Maya architecture, because it's only in Mexico that you can see it. The style is notable for devoutly religious, mythical motives (a town is a universe with its sun, in architecture a sacred temple, in the centre) and was swayed by the antecedent nations gains. Multi graded arches, upper situated verandahs, cornices and columns are typical of Maya architecture. There are several different styles:
Peten: edifices are put on graduated verandahs, slanting structures, modelled mouldings and stairs designed from the building's front and no thin walls, all this can be found in Calakmul, packed with ancient ruins.
Palenque
: Vertical socle raised places, stairs with side slopes, ceramic decorations, stucco ornate fronts. The style's patterns can be learned in Yaxchilan that can be reached only by boat, or in Palenque that has one of the best-preserved archaeological places.
But most of all Mexico is renowned for numerous haciendas, in the previous centuries Mexican landowners inhabited the estates, that now are desolate museums, surrounded by various cactuses and agaves, though you will be impressed at quaint shape, immense size and amazing beauty.
Feel a rush looking at fantastical figures and stucco forms immortalized by Mexican creators!
