Mansions of Paseo de Montejo

The Paseo de Montejo is a wide boulevard where European architecture and social influence can be seen in the grand mansions built along this street by Merida’s affluent around the turn of the Twentieth Century.

During Merida’s heyday, when the export of sisal created a financial boom where Merida had “more millionaires than any other city in North America”, many of the city’s rich built their homes along this boulevard. Most of the buildings have been restored and are now occupied by Government agencies or private business. The outsides of the mansions however, retain their original glory of the late nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries.