In 1605 the town council went to the bishop of Yucatan, Don Diego Vázquez de Mercado, to tell him that the parish church, besides being in poor condition, was small. A few years later, the governor and the bishop agreed to build a new one. For this purpose, the plots that formed the north block…
The first lyric theatre to be built in the republic. It is due to the initiative of Colonel Francisco de Paula Toro, whose name it bears since 1879. It was the creation of Teodoro Journot, a French engineer who was serving a sentence in the local prison. It opened its doors on September 15, 1834…
The Earthen Door is a construction that allowed defending the access to the city from any angle. The wall is bounded by a moat and has pockets from which firearms were fired. It has adjoining rooms which were occupied by the guard and the troops on duty. At the top of the gate is a…
This bastion was the last of the eight to be completed, its current form differs greatly from the original that was similar to that of San Carlos, currently reads 1704 at the top of its entrance, although it does not exactly correspond to the date of completion of the entire walled enclosure. It was completed…
On the upper part of the entrance aperture is inscribed the date of its completion on the stone “9 August 1792”. It was built on the windward hill, has a moat and drawbridge, in its center a cistern is noted for its rim and a stepped ramp, leads to the top. Like San Miguel, it…
It was built on the hill of “Buena Vista” to the leeward side of the city, with an area of 3,858 square meters, towards the end of the eighteenth century when England having occupied the Florida and what is now Belize, aroused the fear of occupying peninsular land. The attack never happened; however, it was…
At the edge of the old Camino Real, a crossroads of streets transformed into a square, its image evokes the eclecticism of the 19th century with its 18th century gallery remodelled to the bourgeois taste of the porphyry and its neo-Romanesque tower that marks the hours. Once a bustling market centre, today it is a…
Once the Constitution of Cadiz was sworn in, one of the first agreements of the new town hall was the destruction of the pillory established in the middle and to call it Plaza de la Constitución. The Town Hall on December 18, 1826, agreed to place a plaque that reads: “Plaza de la Independencia. 1821”….
It was the first of the accesses built and the first to be demolished at the end of the 19th century. For two centuries it was the entrance and exit for those who used the only means of communication at that time: navigation. It had no moat and ravelin, and in front of it there…
Although the culinary specialties of Campeche have many ingredients in common with others from the Yucatan area, those of Campeche are distinguished by their seasoning and presentation. Many of the recipes are prepared with two ingredients: sour orange, which is used to marinate meats, and achiote, a typical regional condiment that gives dishes their characteristic…