Izamal Yellow City

A colonial city built almost entirely over Maya temples — and painted uniformly in ochre yellow — Izamal's San Antonio de Padua Franciscan monastery was constructed directly atop the platform of the Ppapp-Hol-Chac pyramid and its cobblestone atrium is the largest enclosed church courtyard in the Americas. The small pyramid of Kinich Kakmó rising above the city center, still partially unexcavated, creates the most intimate coexistence of Maya and Spanish colonial architecture in the Yucatan.