MEXICO
TULUM

megabien has investigated and shortly visited this beautiful location in Tulum, on the pensinsula of Yukatan, about 45 min by car from Cancun, Mexico.
It looks that this location has again the magic megabien is looking for its concerts. A further, more detailed preproduction on site will be made shortly to determine all the details such as concert location and accommodation for artists, musicians, production team and our friends and guests who will attent the three shows of this upcoming production.

History of Tulum

The earliest date lifted from the site is A.D. 564 (the inscription on a stele). This places Tulum within the Classic period, though we know that its heyday was much later (1200 - 1521 A.D.) during the Late Post-classic period. Tulum was a major link in the Maya's extensive trade network. Both maritime and land routes converged here. Artifacts found in or near the site testify to contacts that ranged from Central Mexico to Central America and every place in between:
copper rattles and rings from the Mexican highlands; flint and ceramics from all over the Yucatán; jade and obsidian from Guatemala and more.
The first Europeans to see Tulum were probably Juan de Grijalva and his men as they sailed reconnaissance along the Eastern coast of Yucatán, in 1518. The Spaniards later returned to conquer the Peninsula unwittingly bringing Old World diseases which decimated the native population.
And so Tulum, like so many cities before it, was abandoned to the elements.

City square

The square at the center of the city was probably once used for rituals or ceremonies and is flanked by the so called Castillo (The Castle) to the West. The Castillo, sometimes referred to as the lighthouse, is the tallest building at Tulum and the most famous. It stands on the above mentioned bluff, commanding a view of the ocean and coast for miles in both directions. The structure underwent several stages of building and the lintels of its upper rooms are carved with the plumed serpent motif. The rooms themselves are vaulted in classic Mayan style.