Riviera Maya Cultural Blog

The French and Italian Renaissance inspired homes are more like palaces that single family dwellings. Casa Gemelas, the twin houses, are the starting point of Paseo Montejo and the architectural journey found on this famous Merida avenue.

A Brief History of Mariachi Pants (Pantalones de Charros)

This holiday is celebrated in the Riviera Maya but local events are not announced until the day before or the day of. What is a guarantee for this celebration is Xcaret’s Festival of Life and Death, an evening event explains the history, cultural aspects and celebrations of this national festival day.

Mayan communities in the Yucatan still honor traditions with cultural dresses. Women wear these colorful and decorative dresses each day.

Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes was born on August 12, 1911 in a tough neighborhood in Mexico City to an impoverished couple with 8 children. After a failed attempt to migrate to the U.S. and a short lived boxing career, Fortino found his place in a circus tent show and then on to theater and film.

Temazcal is a unique traditional ceremony that involves a steam bath, used in traditional ancient medicine by diverse cultures. These traditional ceremonies were originally performed by several indigenous groups including Aztecs and Mayans.

Built in 2012 by the Xcaret cultural workshop, the Virgin de Candeleria Fountain is a work of art that fuses cultural beliefs, art, and traditions into a glorious fountain.

The Xtabentun flower grows wild in the Yucatan and produces the pollen Yucatecan honey bees use to create the sweet nectar needed to make a delicious Mayan liquor.

The nectar of this flower is made into a licorice flavor liquor produced exclusively in Yucatan that may be an aphrodisiac. You can buy it in the Riviera Maya

One of the theories as to how Mexico's Yucatan peninsula was formed is 65 million years ago an asteroid crashed to the earth's surface just north of the City of Merida