Full Merida Tour with tickets

Despite the heat, the visit was very complete and the guide, Estefanía, was excellent. In a little over 3 hours, she gave us good information about Mérida and its history. Recommended, although you have to wear comfortable shoes and bring water during the summer season.

We took a nighttime guided tour with Activa Viajes through the Roman theater and amphitheater, which started at 7:45 PM and ended at 9:00 PM during the carnival season. The group was relatively large, but since there were no other people at that hour in the archaeological site, it was not bad. The guide who conducted the tour with us was professional, without managing to excite the group, although it is difficult to do so when there are many of us and there is not much time to do it. Beyond these details, it is charming to see these significant places with so much history in solitude and with the tranquility of the night. We booked the tour a month in advance online and met the rest of the group and the guide at the ticket sales area of the archaeological site. It is a very interesting and recommended experience. The explanations were more detailed at the theater, to which we dedicated more time and visited several spaces, while she explained the amphitheater to us from an exterior point of it, without us going into its facilities. The explanations were fine, but in such a short time there isn't room for many details or anecdotes to engage the audience.

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.

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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.