Travel Guide Dzibilchaltún

Located half an hour's drive north of Merida, Dzibilchaltún ("the place where flat stones bear inscriptions") has long been considered a secondary archaeological site. Yet it turns out that the site's occupation period is one of the longest of the Maya civilization, extending from the Middle Pre-Classical (1000 to 400 BC) to the late Post-Classical and the arrival of the Spanish. The present site covers an area of about 15 km², and at the time must have included no less than 8,000 structures linked together by these stone and limestone paths known as sacbés. There are still many buildings that need to be brought up to date