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Top 10 sights in Mérida

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   Dzibilchaltun

   A Maya site sixteen kilometres north of Mérida, occupied for some three thousand years. At the equinoxes the sun rises exactly through the doorway of the Temple of the Seven Dolls; the cenote beside it, forty metres deep, gave up thousands of offerings and is open for swimming.

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   Mérida Cathedral

   The cathedral of Mérida, built between 1562 and 1598 from stones taken out of the Maya city that stood here. It is the oldest cathedral on the American mainland and the plainest, its interior stripped in the 1915 revolution.

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   Itzincab

   A settlement on the edge of Uman that grew around the great house of a henequen estate at the height of the sisal trade around 1900, and has since been swallowed by the town. The hacienda buildings still stand among the newer streets.

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   Mérida México Temple

   The ninety-second temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at Mérida in Yucatán in Mexico. It was announced on 25 September 1998 and is the first on the Yucatán peninsula and the ninth in Mexico.

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   Leona Vicario

   A village on the outskirts of Mérida named after Leona Vicario, who financed and spied for the Mexican independence movement and was later declared the mother of the nation.

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   San Pedro Cholul

   A henequen hacienda east of Merida that flourished at the height of the sisal boom around 1900. Only the chimney of the works still stands; the rest was pulled down in 2018 as the city spread over the estate.

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   Anikabil

   An old village on the western edge of Merida, swallowed since the 2000s by the Ciudad Caucel housing estate that spread across the fields around it.

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   Gran Museo del Mundo Maya

   A museum of Maya culture opened in 2012 in a building shaped after the ceiba, the tree the Maya held sacred. Around a thousand objects trace the peninsula from the meteorite that ended the dinosaurs through the classic cities to the Maya of today.

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   Chichí Suárez

   A former hacienda at Mérida in Yucatán in Mexico. It was a henequen estate of the nineteenth-century boom, and its owners included a grandson of the founder of Mérida and more than two state governors.

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    Korean migration to Mexico centennial monument

    A tower and plaque raised for the centenary of Korean migration to Mexico. The first contract labourers landed at Progreso in 1905 and were set to work on the henequen plantations; too poor ever to return home, they founded the community the monument commemorates.

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