In a secret location in Mérida’s Centro neighborhood sits an unassuming old auto repair shop. Hidden behind its roll-up steel ...

El Gran Museo del Mundo Maya de Mérida translates to The Great Museum of the Mayan World of Mérida. With more than 1,160 artifacts on display, the museum combines ancient textiles, religious elements, ...

The colony of Augusta Emerita, which became present-day Mérida in Estremadura, was founded in 25 B.C. at the end of the Spanish Campaign and was the capital of Lusitania. The well-preserved remains of ...

The capital of the Yucatán attracts creative types from around Mexico and across many borders, drawn by its Mayan and colonial heritage and, for some, its path to the future. Plantel Matilde, an arts ...

The Mérida Initiative is a bilateral security cooperation agreement between Mexico and the United States The Mérida Initiative celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Yet since it began providing ...

If you're looking to see as much of Spain as you can in one trip, and you don't mind paying for luxury accommodations, this ...

Mérida is one of those dream destinations where “something for everyone” is not just a tourism-board platitude. In the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán, there’s a ton of Spanish colonial and ...

Freda Moon has traveled Mexico from top to bottom, by car and by sailboat, and has been writing about the country for The New York Times since 2009. Even as tourism to the Yucatán Peninsula skyrockets ...

I’ll admit it: I had never really liked Mexico. My visits had been limited to cruise ports, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlán, Cabo, and Cozumel—and each spot left me underwhelmed. The towns felt more curated ...

The central role of printmaking in five centuries of Mexican art on view at the Met shows the weight of many minds.

Mérida, Mexico, is rapidly growing in both size and reputation. It’s a solid craft beer city for its size. I enjoyed my time in the city, using cold beer to help cool off on hot days. Here are my ...

For a Mexican city whose reputation tends to concentrate on its gilded age of the early 20 th century, some hundred years later, Mérida is experiencing a second coming. Between new hotels, restaurants ...