MÉRIDA, Mexico — Until this winter, Mérida had just been a busy city I passed through on my way to the ancient Mayan ruins. Then, in mid-December, I made it my destination. I pretty much had to: I’d ...

In Mérida, creativity appears inside former workshops, colonial homes, and restaurants, making cultural discovery part of ...

Mérida, Mexico is a town lost in a time when the remote Yucatan capital was among the richest cities in the world, due to its production of rope, made from the local agave plant. These days old world ...

One of the premier things to do in Mérida, Paseo de Montejo is a wide street modeled after the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Stretching almost 4 miles long, it is lined with mansions dating back to ...

Mérida is the Yucatán Peninsula’s cultural epicenter, a genteel mix of provincial and cosmopolitan with a friendly small-town feel, despite its 777,000 residents. As a woman traveling alone, I hadn’t ...