Historical landmark
Playacar Mayan Ruinas
Postclassic Maya temples where canoe pilgrims once set off for the goddess Ixchel's island shrine.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Xaman Ha ruins in Playacar, Playa del Carmen, follows the Maya pilgrims, many of them women, who gathered on this shore before crossing to Cozumel's shrine of Ixchel. It then turns to the autumn of fifteen twenty-seven, when Francisco de Montejo arrived with a royal charter and a plan to plant a Spanish town on this coast. Stand beside the low stone temples, where traces of old paint still cling.
This audio guide was created using AI.