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Experience the vibrant Mexican culture!
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AU students are now able to study in Puebla, Mexico at the Universidad
de las Americas, Puebla in Cholula for a semester
or a full year. UDLAP's campus occupies 175 landscaped
acres on the site of a former hacienda, with views of
snow-capped mountains and the legendary volcano, Popocatepetl.
The university's colonial-style buildings create a self-contained
campus with classrooms, cafeterias, dormitories, and
a small lake. Additional facilities include a medical
clinic, computer labs, a gym and swimming pool, and
bus service to and from the region's capital city of
Puebla. Cholula is full of history, beauty and
mystery. It is the oldest continuously inhabited city
in the Americas, and one of the most important centers
of ancient Mesoamerica. Since the Spanish conquered
the city in 1519, Cholula was known for its magnificent
cathedral, perched on a tall hill on the edge of town.
A few decades ago, the local people, descendants of
the rugged and independent Toltecs, revealed a secret
they had kept for hundreds of years. As Cortes carried
out his conquest, he destroyed every temple in his path.
The Toltecs worried that their Great Pyramid, which
was by then 600 years old and had the widest base of
any pyramid in the world, would meet the same fate.
So just before Cortes arrived, the Toltecs worked day
and night to cover their Pyramid with mud. Instead of
a temple, Cortes saw just a large hill, and he built
his cathedral there. The Toltecs smiled and continued
to pray in their Temple by entering through hidden tunnels.
Four hundred years later, they revealed their secret
and today you can see their art in the tunnels and appreciate
the scale of their secret and the magic of their message
to the Europeans. The riddle connecting the church to
the pyramid is one that defines Mexico.
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