The capital of Maya art. In Copán, the stelae carved with impossible detail and the Hieroglyphic Stairway — the longest Maya text in existence, over 2,000 glyphs — tell the story of a dynasty in stone. You wander the plazas among scarlet macaws flying free and centuries-old trees. Less crowded than other Maya sites, but perhaps the most refined of them all. A World Heritage Site since 1980.