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Cocina de Autor is a Mexican restaurant brand within the all-inclusive resort Grand Velas Resorts. The restaurant marque is found at the Riviera Maya and Los Cabos Corridor establishments, in Quintana Roo and Baja California Sur, respectively. Cocina de Autor offers creative cuisine featuring dishes made with ingredients from various regions.
Chocolate: The cocoa tree is native to Maya territory, and the Maya are believed to be the first people to have cultivated the cacao plant for food. [25] For the ancient Maya, cocoa was a sacred gift from the gods. [26] The cocoa plant, theobroma, literally translates to "food of the gods".
Vida Vacations was also formerly known as Mayan Resorts and Grupo Mayan. Resort brands of the company include The Grand Luxxe, The Grand Bliss, The Grand Mayan, The Bliss, Mayan Palace and Sea Garden. It is affiliated with Interval International, allowing
Grand Luxxe in Riviera Maya, Mexico received AAA Five Diamond in 2017. [62] Grand Luxxe in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico received the AAA's Five Diamond rating for a third year in a row in 2018. [63] In 2019, Vidanta Nuevo Vallarta was named one of the Top 100 hotels in the world in Travel + Leisure magazine's ‘World’s Best’ award series. [64]
Comalcalco is an ancient Maya archaeological site in the State of Tabasco, Mexico, adjacent to the modern city of Comalcalco and near the southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. It is the only major Maya city built with bricks rather than limestone masonry and was the westernmost city of the Maya civilisation.
Valeriana is a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Campeche in the tropical rainforest jungle near its eastern border with the state of Quintana Roo. [1] Its discovery was announced in October 2024, and the site was named after an adjacent lake.
Grand Luxxe in Nuevo Vallarta and Riviera Maya has received the AAA Five Diamond Award. [16]Vidanta Riviera Maya was ranked among the top resorts in Mexico in Condé Nast Traveler's Readers' Choice Awards in 2019, 2020, and 2021.
The expeditionaries' reports of grand Maya cities would nonetheless spur further Cuban expeditions to Yucatan, including a 1518 trading and reconnoitering voyage by Juan de Grijalva and another in 1519 by Hernán Cortés, the latter of which quickly morphed into the 1519–1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and the 1519–1521 smallpox ...