Like Mexican cooking, which mixes
the flavors of limes and chilies, Yucatán’s civilization is a blend of contrasting cultures: Maya and Catholic.
Nowhere is the mix more evident than in the golden city of Izamal, in Yucatán’s north. Buildings here wear the same sunny hue, matching that of the 16th-century monastery of
St. Anthony of Padua,
one of the oldest Catholic
monasteries in the Americas.
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