Green Gold & Grand Mansions
Walk the boulevard that henequen built — Paseo de Montejo, where Yucatán's fiber barons raised French palaces in the tropics with fortunes spun from 'green gold.'
Start
Parque de Santa Ana
End
Teatro Peón Contreras
Tour Stops (8)
Parque de Santa Ana
A quiet barrio park with a 1729 church, marking the northern gateway where Paseo de Montejo begins its grand procession.
Monumento a la Patria
A monumental sculptural frieze by Colombian artist Rómulo Rozo (1956), depicting the full sweep of Mexican history in carved stone.
Casas Gemelas / Montejo 495 Casa Museo
The Twin Mansions (1907-1911), designed by a French architect — the first buildings in the Yucatán to have electricity.
Palacio Cantón / Museo Regional de Antropología
A Beaux-Arts palace (1904-1911) by Italian architect Enrico Deserti, now housing Yucatán's finest collection of Maya anthropological artifacts.
Villa Amira / Centro Cultural Fernando Castro Pacheco
A 1928 post-Revolution mansion that now serves as a cultural center honoring the muralist whose work defines the Palacio de Gobierno.
El Pinar
A pink French Renaissance mansion (1898-1904) with Art Nouveau flourishes, built entirely with European materials shipped across the Atlantic.
Quinta Montes Molina
A fully restored henequen-era mansion with original European furnishings — a time capsule of how the fiber barons lived.
Teatro Peón Contreras
A 1908 Italian-designed opera house with a Carrara marble staircase and a thousand-seat hall — the crown jewel of henequen-era Mérida.