After visiting the Palace of Quetzalpapalotl, we walked up the Patio of the Jaguars. This Patio is behind Palace of Quetzalpapalotl. Most of the murals are pretty monochromatic red. However, a few fragments are more colorful, as you can see below. The Patio also includes some cool looking bas-relief wall columns. As with most of Teotihuacan, the energy here felt dense and rigid and harsh, very warlike.
According to the INAH Plaque accompanying this Patio, the murals painted on the dwellings’ walls inspired the name the Patio of the Jaguars. A temple holding pyramid, whose stairway reinforcements are decorated with rattlesnake tails on the lower end, borders the main plaza on the east. Spacious rooms whose porticos have murals portraying Jaguar Processions border the main plaza’s other 3 sides. The clearest murals are on the north side porticos.
