But I recently visited Cholula, on the outskirts of Puebla, and found myself wandering through a labyrinth deep in the bowels of the largest pyramid in Mexico, at 1,476 feet square and 217 feet high.

PUEBLA, Mexico — Look west on a clear day from any hilltop in Puebla. In the suburb of Cholula, 7 miles outside downtown, you’ll spy an orange church and a snow-topped peak looming behind it ...

Mexico is home to some truly amazing archeological sites — here are nine pyramids to plan your next trip around. Leonid Andronov/Getty Images The world is full of ancient wonders — so many ...

Looking down from the top of the great pyramid at Cholula across Puebla toward Popocatépetl, the 17,802-foot volcano. The peak is often obscured because of volcanic steam from the crater.

PUEBLA, Mexico — Look west on a clear day from any hilltop in Puebla. In the suburb of Cholula, seven miles outside downtown, you’ll spy an orange church and a snow-topped peak looming behind it.

MEXICO CITY—In 1519, Hernán Cortés and his conquistadors arrived in Cholula, one of the largest cities in central Mexico.Roughly 50 miles southeast from modern day Mexico City, its tens of ...

Covered in a rash of grass, trees and soil and laying in the shadow of the Popocatepétl volcano is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, which at 1,500 feet wide and more than 200 feet tall is four times ...

The ancient town has lots to offer visitors. Just a dozen miles from Puebla, Mexico's fourth-largest city, Cholula has several dozen elaborately decorated churches; a huge pyramid with a church on ...

In San Pedro Cholula and in the entire state of Puebla, Mexico, people go out of their way to pray and worship, even though most of the churches have suffered earthquake damage. For the most part ...