Inside Casa de Montejo museum in Zocalo square in Merida, the capital city of the Yucatan, Mexico Latin America. Casa de Montejo is on the south side

Inside Casa de Montejo museum in Zocalo square in Merida, the capital city of the Yucatan, Mexico Latin America. Casa de Montejo is on the south side

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Inside Casa de Montejo museum in Zocalo square in Merida, the capital city of the Yucatan, Mexico Latin America. Casa de Montejo is on the south side of Plaza Grande and dates from 1540. It originally housed soldiers, but was soon converted into a mansion that served members of the Montejo family until the 1800s. Today it houses a bank and museum with a permanent exhibition of renovated Victorian, neo-rococo and neo-renaissance furnishings of the historic building.