# Plaza de la Independencia

> This file is a plain-text rendition of a page on mytuur.com, generated from the same data as the HTML version.

Canonical page: https://mytuur.com/en/city/merida/spot/plaza-de-la-independencia/

Content updated: 2026-06-22

This page is about one place: Plaza de la Independencia, a spot in Mérida with a story of its own. The story itself lives in the myTuur app, and it begins when you arrive and the app knows you are standing there.

- City: [Mérida](https://mytuur.com/en/city/merida/)

## Photos

- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_Plaza_de_la_Independencia_69f4f800d25af08cf41eee64_0.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detalle_de_esculturas_superiores_en_la_fachada_del_Ateneo_peninsular.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_Plaza_de_la_Independencia_69f4f800d25af08cf41eee64_1.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pasaje_de_la_Revolución,_Mérida,_Yucatán_(01).JPG)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_Plaza_de_la_Independencia_69f4f800d25af08cf41eee64_2.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atardecer_en_la_Catedral_de_San_Ildefonso.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_Plaza_de_la_Independencia_69f4f800d25af08cf41eee64_3.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detalles_en_Fachada_principal_de_la_Catedral_de_San_Ildefonso_en_Mérida,_Yucatán.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_Plaza_de_la_Independencia_69f4f800d25af08cf41eee64_4.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterior_catedral_de_San_Ildefonso,_plaza_grande_Mérida.jpg)

Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Mérida. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.

## What is myTuur?

myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.