He Merida City CouncilYucatán, presented the various artistic, cultural and sporting events which will take place from November to January of next year so that tour operators and interested people from the country’s capital can schedule their visit in advance.
In a press conference that was led by the mayor of Mérida, Cecilia Patrón Laviada, the municipal director of Tourism, Armando Casares Espinosa, indicated that the objective of the visit to Mexico City is that potential visitors can reserve their tickets in advance. flight, lodging and food options.
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He highlighted that Mérida’s air connectivity is more than eight international flights, “we have connections with the American cities of Miami and Orlando in Florida, with Houston in Texas, Los Angeles in California and also flights that connect with Havana, Cuba, and destinations like Guatemala, among others.”
“As for domestic flights, we are connected to at least 13 cities such as Villahermosa, Cancún, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Veracruz, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Toluca, Puebla, Oaxaca, and of course Mexico City, among others,” he added.
Likewise, Mérida has an offer of more than 10,500 rooms in some 274 hotels and from the page https://visitmerida.mx/ You can access a series of packages and offers available or you can also consult through the Yucatán Hotel and Motel Association and the Yucatán Travel Agencies Association.
Both associations are working hand in hand with the administration of Cecilia Patrón Laviada, and what they seek is to make attractive packages, many of them very affordable so that they can be present during the most representative festivities of the city, commented the municipal official.
In particular, there is important interest because the magical neighborhoods of La Ermita de Santa Isabel, San Sebastián and Xcalachén, are visited during the activities that will take place from November to January, which include the Animas Festival, the White Night, the Mérida Fest 2025 and the International Marathon of the City of Mérida, the Mérida Open, among others.
For his part, Patrón Laviada declared that Mérida is a city with many attractions and that it has free cultural events every day, as well as a great gastronomic offer and also an important sports agenda.
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Likewise, he stressed that the festivities related to the Day of the Dead are of great importance for the inhabitants of Mérida; “Without a doubt it is one of the great festivities we have.
These days everything revolves around the souls and Janal Pixán (food of the souls) where one of the main protagonists is the mucbipollo.”
“We want you to accompany us to live our traditions in a profound way as we live them, and we are going to have many activities related to the souls and the tradition of the Day of the Dead that begin on October 28 and end on November 8,” he said.
The activities include the exhibition of monumental altars, the Gran Paseo de las Animas, night tours of the General Cemetery (the oldest in the city of Mérida), bicycle rides to that cemetery, the Paseo de las Catrinas and other events that will reflect both the traditions and the multicultural evolution that the Yucatecan capital has had in recent years, he concluded.
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