Found­ed c. 1350, Ayut­thaya became the sec­ond Siamese cap­i­tal after Sukhothai. It was destroyed by the Burmese in the 18th cen­tu­ry. Its remains, char­ac­ter­ized by the prang (reli­quary tow­ers) and gigan­tic monas­ter­ies, give an idea of its past splen­dour.