almenas
Nota de aplicación
In Mexico, adornments of roofs or parapet tops, made of stone or molded terracotta, particularly abundant in the architectural tradition of the central highlands and that appeared crowning sumptuary buildings or, exceptionally, of a coatepantli or "snake wall", in the manner of a battlement. It also designates discontinuous stretches of parapets of cut silhouette that, in occasions, encircle the upper platform of a pyramidal base. They are distin…