Today, this is the Museum of the Sun, but it stands on the same foundations of many structures of the Muisca Indians. The Spanish destroyed the villagae about 500 years ago. The temple of the sun has been rebuilt to give turists an idea of what would have been inside the temple. The original was many times higher. When the Spaniards burned it, the wood was so hard and there so much of it, that it took the Spaniards two years to burn it completely. The original was covered with gold.
