Mérida - Parks
The zókalo is the main park in the center of Mérida. Here you can always find local people. Young students playing percussion, families with their kids playing around, hunting birds, and old people sitting on the famous "you and me chairs" enjoying the lively atmosphere. At the weekend the zókalo turns into a party place with lots of music, dancing and art shows.
Group of four parks built in 1945 as homage to the American nations. Commemorative sculptures dedicated to each country of the American continent spread out along the extension. A Neo-Mayan style fountain with worked stone stands out at one of this parks, water runs along its high columns and cascade design. Another one is distinguished by its acoustics shell where free concerts and musical performances are held. A third park is dedicated to the children, its interior avenues are designed to imitate streets with small traffic lights, traffic signs and bridges. Finally the fourth one hosts a small library.
Every Sunday vehicle traffic is closed around this park to give room to the "Mérida en Domingo" program. From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. food and arts and crafts stands are installed. Musical groups and local artists add charm to the festivity. Address: Colon Avenue and 82 street.
Mérida's zoo is a spacious recreational park built in 1910 as part of the first century of the national independence of Mexico festivities. It hosts distinctive animal species from the region and other countries, a great aviary and a small aquarium were built lately.
Families can take a short train ride along the peripheria of the park, refresh themselves next to an artificial lake, rent a horse for their children, hire the services of the official photographer for a memory photo, pick-nick under the trees, even hang a hammock between the trees for a siesta. Small restaurants provide fast food to go.
Address: Calle 59 and Avenida Itzaes.
Open Tuesday till Sunday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., free admission
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