Its great urban icon is the Convent of San Antonio de Padua, built on a Maya platform; its great pre-Hispanic icon is Kinich Kak Moo, one of the largest pyramids on the peninsula by footprint. Izamal is not just “a yellow town”; it is an ancient sacred city that keeps pyramids inside its urban area.
Yucatán Travel notes that Kinich Kak Moo, Itzamatul, Kabul, Habuk, El Conejo and Chaltún Há surround it, so Izamal can be explored as a living archaeological landscape rather than an isolated archaeological zone.
