Puebla, Mexico to Host dg.o 2009
Posted Thursday, July 3, 4:56AM
The dg.o 2009 organizers have settled on Puebla, Mexico for the site of the conference. We plan on making this the most family-friendly digital government conference to date, with exciting field trips and opportunities in the region.
For example, courtesy of Google Images:
"The Pyramid of the Moon photographed from the top of the Pyramid of the Sun. The stairs on both pyramids begin on a stone structure which is attached to the pyramid, but many people consider the Pyramid of the Moon to be more graceful than the earlier Pyramid of the Sun. The large stone altar in the middle of the Plaza of the Moon is thought to have been used for ceremonial dancing. Around the extremities of the plaza you can get a good idea of how the city must have looked to the first Europeans, with most of the buildings, including the pyramids, completely overgrown by a layer of vegetation."
Teotihuacan pyramids (the picture from Stu post) is just one of the interesting sites around Puebla. It is a 2-hour drive to the Pyramids from Puebla. Teotihuacan means "the place were men become gods", and it is the name given by the aztecs to the place, showing how imopressed were they by the architecture.