Ñuu Ndiyi

Ñuu Ndiyi was a Zapotec and Mixtec religious centre in Oaxaca's Tlacolula valley, later known as Mitla. Around 1000 Mixtec rulers took control of the city; its tombs held rulers and high priests.

Its walls bore intricate mosaic fretwork made of polished stones fitted without mortar. It remained a sanctuary when the Spanish arrived in the 1520s, but in 1553 Archbishop Albuquerque ordered the temples dismantled and a church built on the northern platform.