Merida P oints of I nterest in M erida Plaza Mayor Day or night, Meridians flock to their Main Plaza.
Live music pervades the air and both strollers and sitters enjoy the sights.
Streets around the Plaza are closed Sunday to traffic, a perfect time to ply the neighborhood in calesas, horse-drawn buggies. Cathedral The largest and oldest church on the Yucatan Peninsula, this soaring edifice with its Moorish style spires was built with stones pilfered from Mayan temples. The stately Spanish colonial mansion of the Montejo Family, who defeated the Mayans and established this New-world city. As with many of the buildings of the same period, it was created with material from Mayan sites and with Mayan labor. Today a bank.