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Pullman Charles de Gaulle Airport Hotel
Pullman Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport Hotel is a Paris hotel in the central zone of Roissy International Airport, Paris, France. Also near Villepinte trade fair grounds and Paris North industrial Park and only a short drive to Paris downtown. ...
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Paramount Hotel
Paramount Hotel, New York, USA is in the heart of the theatre district and restaurant row. A modern and trendy 4 star New York hotel close to upscale Madison and Fifth Avenue shopping, Penn Station, and the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. ...
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Mision de Los Angeles
The Mision De Los Angeles Hotel in Oaxaca is a luxury resort with extensive spacious grounds, exuberant peaceful gardens and with large Indian Laurel shade trees. ...
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Chichen Itza
The Mayan city of Chichen Itza in Yucatan represents the most intact and impressive of the Ruins of the Mayan civilization that the modern world preserves.

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The Castle

The Mayans are famous for their brilliant and advanced astronomic knowledge.

Around the year 550 A. C. the Mayans settled in Chichen Itza (Mayan word for "the mouth of the well").

One of the structures that are believed was constructed before 800 A.C. is The Castle, a building that spills light in the impressive Mayan astronomical system.

The Castle is in fact a solar calendar, with 91 steps to each side and one for the altar. Every day the shades fall down in a different step. With The Castle, the Mayans knew exactly when to seed their harvests.

The Snail, is another oriented structure of astronomy. It is a giant observatory with a dome where many rituals and celebrations took place. The dome has many windows completely pigmented. The stars can be seen through different windows in specific dates. This structure is one of the pinnacles of the Mayan architecture.

Constructing a dome of stone is a hard work, but to create it with windows in precise points, takes an enormous quantity of work and knowledge. The Snail, simultaneously shows us that the Mayans were experts in astronomy and engineering. This is one of Chichen Itza's major attractions nowadays.

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Adriana Beach Club
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