Mérida is amazing. Its built on top of a roman city built in 25AD by Augustvs Caesar as a retirement community for his Legionnaires after the campaign. Everywhere you go wandering through the narrow streets are roman ruins. There are many modern buildings perched overtop of an exposed and protected ruin, in place of basements and ground floors. There is an open theater, still in use, a 6000 seat amplitheater next door, a huge hippodrome (for chariot races), and portions of the 3 aquaducts that served the city. They've built a monumental Museum, all roman, with some of the displayed artifacts excavated during construction of the museum's foundations. It sits over the restored main road to Cordova. This is one af the Templos, quietly sitting in the middle of a residential district.
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