Trujillo is known as the “City of Eternal Spring” for its near-perfect climate all year round – sunny skies and temperatures of 70 degrees. Located on the northern coast of Peru is a historical city located in an area that has been inhabited for thousands of years. Perhaps this ideal climate that has become so idyllic.
Modern Trujillo, is inside a walled colonial city founded by the conquistador Diego de Almagro in 1534. Trujillo has served twice as the capital of Peru and was the birthplace of the Peruvian justice.
Trujillo Travel offers visitors to discover beautiful beaches, cultural and archaeological sites known as the Moche huacas of the Sun and the Moon (Temple of the Sun and the Moon), the largest pre-Columbian city in the Americas, Chan Chan. Trujillo is a different destination, and people make it a wonderful place to spend a night or two during his visit to the Kingdom of Peru is the North.
Peru is home to a number of fascinating archaeological sites. Peru has been home to many cultures for thousands of years and due to its dry climate ancient coastal treasures that many of them have been preserved to allow visitors to glimpse today in cultures of colors and their magnificent works of art.
A lesser-known sites is a short drive 15 minutes south of Trujillo is one of the most spectacular. The Temples of the Sun and the Moon is in a valley along the river Moche. The pyramids are built of adobe huacas from the Moche culture, around 1500 years ago. The Temple of the Moon is the smaller of the two temples, located in front of Cerro Blanco, in a north-south and was the religious center of the city. While the Sun Temple is the newest and largest of the two temples has an east-west, is located in front of Black Hill and served as the central administration. The two huacas are separated by a valley about 500 meters square, which was the capital of the Moche.
Restoration of the Temple of the Moon began in 1991 and the site was opened in 1995, while the restoration of the Temple of the Sun is scheduled to begin in 2011. Visit the site includes a visit to the museum, located near the entrance of the Temple of the Moon. The University of Trujillo Museum has an excellent collection of objects collected on the site, and several multimedia presentations of Moche art, architecture and religion.
Thanks to the Moche belief system, the Temple of the Moon is one of the most interesting archaeological tours of the Americas. The Moche built the pyramids of levels. Each year about 100 are going to build a new pyramid that completely covers the age pyramid. This could fill the old structure of brick and adobe plaster over the bricks to seal the old and usher in the new. Consequently, when the archaeologist began studying the site 20 years ago, began to peel the layers and the discovery of the original design of the Moche tombs, vases and other ornaments. His work was the only one to discover and preserve the site for the future – there was no restructuring or “reinterpretation” of the pyramid, as seen in many other archaeological sites.
The development of the site – the two pyramids and the city in the middle was done entirely with private funding from individuals, foundations, universities and businesses. Much of the work being done by students both locally and abroad. The Temple of the Moon is a fascinating place, well worth a visit and we can not but believe that the work once it begins at the Temple of the Sun and the wonders of this site is made available to the public, which will become one of the most popular destinations in Peru .
Before the Inca Chimu culture lived in the fertile valley near modern Trujillo in northern Peru. The descendants of the Moche, who built a great big pyramids of the Sun and Moon Culture Chumu has some similarities to the Moche and some differences in how they lived. As the Chimu Moche lived fish, adobe is used as the primary construction material, building decorated with paintings and ceramics made in yellow, red, black and white.
But unlike the Moche built huge pyramids Chamu the city, among them – the Chimú built Chan Chan. A 7.7 km square of Chan Chan was the city’s largest pre-Columbian Americas. The city was built with a triangular shape in the form of the walled city with walls of protection extends beyond the 50 to 60 feet in the air. It consists of 10 walled citadels which housed palaces, burial chambers, temples, streets, plazas and ceremonial platforms were dug and reserves created from what would have fresh water. The exterior walls made the city so impregnable that even after 10 long years of war, the only way that the Incas were able to conquer the city had to cut water supplies finally breaking the water system had been built for provide water to farms and cities.
The Chimu so hated that the Incas when the Spanish arrived they were greeted with open arms. Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro founded the nearby city of Trujillo, the name of Pizarro at home in Spain. The Chimu Chan Chan quickly abandoned once great cities and devastated the environment. The winds and rain during El Niño years would worsen the city walls and colorful murals. For hundreds of years sitting there until 1969, a mission led by Harvard University’s Michael E. Moseley came to study Chan Chan.
Page Today mapping is incomplete and the archaeological exploration has just begun. A restoration effort is underway to reconstruct much of the city to look like it did during the time of the Chimu. Visit Chan Chan is one of the highlights in the kingdoms of northern Peru. Currently, only the Tschudi Palace is open to visitors. But upon entering the site you can see the once great city was halved by the Pan American Highway just imagine how awesome that must have been.