Day 1 - Tihosuco The door frame of the massive fortress church of San Agustin in Tihosuco. In 1686 it successfully withstood an assault by buccaneers led by the Dutch pirate Lorencillo. In 1856 the town (which in the 1830's had a population of 50,000) was abandoned and the church gutted after a long siege by the Maya. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_War