Cigno Mejorada, a hotel where modern and Maya collide

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Mérida. No one would call the capital of Yucatán, with a population that tops one million and one of Latin America’s richest syncretic intersections of colonial and Maya culture, a secret. The city whose namesake is in Extremadura, Spain, was built atop the Maya capital known as Ti’ho, legendary (back then) for its monumental pyramids. Today there are…