Mérida Cultural Circuit

Yucatan's capital city offers the finest concentration of Spanish colonial architecture in Mexico's southeast, anchored by the Palacio de Gobierno housing Fernando Castro Pacheco's Maya history murals, the enormous cathedral built from stones of the Maya pyramid it replaced, and the Paseo de Montejo boulevard of French belle époque mansions. The Sunday Gran Paseo closing the Paseo de Montejo to traffic for cycling, music, and food transforms the avenue into the largest weekly urban festival in southeastern Mexico.