City of Mérida Festival, Yucatán, January 2 thru 12, 2006
Date: Wednesday, January 04
Topic: Events
This celebration is the city’s birthday, dating back over 450 years ago. The ten-day festival features music, dance and displays of local art, as well as the annual serenade to the city, where the traditional “Mañanitas” (the “Happy Birthday” song) is sung by its residents.
Mérida will enchant you with her serenade (concert) in Santa Lucia, with public dances to the sound of a “big band” orchestra, and with her history displayed in the Mejorada. La Mejorada is a magnificent convent dating to the colonial era and a former military fort, which is now open to the public and a must-see. The Plaza Grande or Main Square, is the central point for all walking tours of this magical city. Here a wide variety of Merida’s characters meet, demonstrating the intense activity of the cultural capital of the Yucatán Península.
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