Full Merida Tour with tickets
Description
A special visit that should not be missed if you want to know in depth the city and its history. We will access the main monuments of the historic center always accompanied by an expert and dedicated guide.
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Itinerary
Starting Point: Activa Tours Office
Brief description of the tour. Historical introduction of the city. Maximum Decumano
Where you can meet, among other unique buildings in the city, the Co-Cathedral of Santa María and the Palacio de los Vera - Mendoza.
We will access this spectacular enclosure preserved under the Ministry building. The guide will explain to you this excavation where you can step on Roman roads more than 2000 years old, and admire the remains of spectacular Roman houses with the Casa de Los Mármoles. A walk through history from the foundation of the Roman city, to the most current era, with Visigoth and Muslim vestiges
You cannot miss the Roman Bridge of Mérida: the longest in the Iberian Peninsula. Currently in use for pedestrian traffic. We will also admire and explain the rest of the bridges that cross the Guadiana, among them, the Lusitania Bridge, the work of the architect Calatrava
Spectacular building that guarded the city in Muslim times. We will access this large enclosure and climb the wall to see the bridges in their entirety and admire the views. We will also access the cistern that supplied the city with water.
Without doubt one of the most spectacular Roman remains in the city. Surprising the tourist who wanders through Mérida and, suddenly, from among the buildings, this temple dedicated to the worship of the Emperor comes out to meet them
Remains of the Roman Forum Municipal Forum
We will access the sand of this spectacular Roman monument. From there it is easy to imagine the wild beasts and the brave gladiators
Undoubtedly, the "Crown Jewel" emeritense. Impressive enclosure that came to house up to about 6000 spectators in Roman times. Currently, headquarters of the International Theater Festival of Mérida.
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Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Mandatory to visit with headphones to connect to the guide radio.
Reviews(52)
The tour is quite complete and Pablo an excellent guide, with deep knowledge about the architecture and uses and customs of the Roman Mérida. The combined ticket to the various monuments is excellent.
Very good experience despite the heat Luis the guide explained everything very well and became very pleasant all the way and we saw everything in a morning of 10
We loved it, I was surprised by the greatness of the monument. Mérida for me was a pleasant surprise in historical terms. The combined ticket to the various monuments is excellent.
We have learned a lot Very pleasant and interesting explanations. Despite being a 3.5 hour visit and that, in principle, seems expensive, it does not get long and worth it, because you see a lot in a short time and with the tickets included.
The walk is wonderful! The guide Pablo is extremely prepared. I fell in love with the historical heritage of Mérida referring to the Roman Empire. Worth a visit. Just don't forget to bring water and some fruit to belish. The guide was very dedicated and our tour lasted more than four hours.
The experience of transiting Merida with the Alice Guide is the possibility of understanding where we are, (presently and geographically), who came before us and, why not, where it is possible to go. Alicia defines herself as not expert in reference to the work of anthropologists who, almost artisanally, strip the layers and layers that cover so much history, so much culture... although she does place herself as a transmitter of all that baggage. As she told us in the 4 hours she drove us through her beloved city: "If what researchers discover is left for science, it is lost... all that work is to spread it." And she, like so many others, lends her voice so that the Merida of old may rise from its rubble. "Augusta Emerita" was founded by the Roman Emperor Augustus at a chosen location. Designed as the retreat place for the army’s top commandos, it was drawn according to military strategy: a central cross marking the 4 cardinal points with their respective access doors, walls that delimited the inside and outside and thus the differences of class and rank. Remarkable and admirable criteria of construction, ingenuity and use of resources, the city had a grid route, delimited by the Guadiana, with "traffic signs" (huge rocks) at the junctions of perpendicular and transverse streets, drinking water, treatment system of sewage waste, an access bridge with an engineering in its construction capable of supporting the floods of the river. The bridge remains standing, currently in pedestrian use. Some of its ruins such as the Theatre and the Amphitheater, the House of the Amphitheater, the temple of Diana have been dug up and put in value, allowing us to imagine today some of that splendor. Others, the passage of time, the fall of the Empire, wars and dominations (eternal repetition of humanity) took the existing into something else. So today there are vestiges, sometimes overlapping, of different cultures, beliefs and political movements. The arrival of Islamic culture incorporated the first Alcazaba of the peninsula into the Roman bridge. And then the universalization of Christianity the transformation into Catholic temples... Read the marks of history to understand the present. Not all past tense was better, nor is the best to come. Read the marks to understand what goes before us, to take what makes sense and sense, to avoid tripping over the "pointing stone". Alice led us through this synchronous journey of time to the very door of a reflection, which to each of us who lived this tour produced this journey. The question, as she asked us, is open for further thought, for further learning.
A guide with good explanations, quite a few visits. It is very enjoyable having spent more than four hours touring Merida.
The city is rich in Roman history, imposing monuments. The city is mostly flat, easy to walk around. And, unwillingly, we went to the city's party week, very funny to see many places dressed in Roman dresses. A city worth visiting.
Hello friends, Our family likes to visit municipalities with grass-tourist interest, and Merida is one of them.. Within Mérida, we can find many points of interest, and one of them, if not the most important, the Roman Theatre of Mérrida, totally recommended, with lots of water and lots of shade.. and advisable to buy tickets on the website of the Consortium of Mérida, because for little money, you can enter different locations of interest.. Very cool the visit, and if you do it with a Guide, much better, I have a good memory, but I do not remember the name of the Guide, but I do remember, he had pink hair.. very Pro and very entertaining and entertaining the visit.
Maybe it falls a little short. Neither the house nor the circus is explained, to which you have to go on your own and without a guide. Good explanation of the guide, Alicia
