Mérida - Paseo Montejo

During Mérida's heyday at the beginning of the 20th c. the Paseo Montejo was laid out on the model of the Paris boulevards. It passes through a select residential district and is flanked by a large number of monuments, the most striking of which is the Monumento a la Patria (Monument to the Fatherland), constructed between 1946 and 1957 by the Columbian sculptor Rómulo Rozo. The principal sections portray Mexico's history and important personalities in the Maya style.