Built by Spanish hands and with Mayan stone atop the ruins of the ancient city of T'ho, the city of Mérida is the largest of its kind in the Yucatán Peninsula and a standing reminder of Mexico's colonial history. Even now, the city's culture bears a spectre of the influence of the Mayans in aspects of the local foodstuffs, clothing, and even local language, a defiant legacy of a people thought erased by the advance of the Conquistador.

Mérida still enjoys the benefits of their henequen industry pioneered during the Porfiriato that led to the creation of millionaires and mansions to house them, sporting many elaborate homes either crumbling from time or standing proudly even now. It is also now able to enjoy the wave of interest in cultural and ecological tourism, proudly able to sport both as tourists come to see the great Yucatán and the histories it holds.