Full Merida Tour with Tickets: In-depth Exploration of City History with Expert Guide

A unique tour not to be skipped for those desiring a comprehensive understanding of the city and its past. Key historical monuments will be visited, all under the guidance of a knowledgeable and committed tour guide.

Duration: 3 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Active Travel & Events - Starting Point: Activa Tours Office
  • Estatua Puerta de la Villa - Brief description of the tour. Historical introduction of the city. Maximum Decumano
  • Plaza de Espana - Where you can meet, among other unique buildings in the city, the Co-Cathedral of Santa María and the Palacio de los Vera - Mendoza.
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What's Included
    • Entrance fees included for all listed monuments
    • Enjoy the full experience with an official tour guide
Additional Information
  • It is mandatory to go to the visit with headphones to connect to the radio guide. If you do not have a headset, we will offer you to buy new ones for € 0.50
Location
C/ José Ramón Mélida, 32b
Calle José Ramón Mélida
We leave from our local office in Mérida, in the street of the Nal Arte Romano Museum
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Navigator532119
Apr 1, 2025
Read the marks of history-Understand the present..."what do you think?" - 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.
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Voyage54480943314
Sep 29, 2024
Fantastic City - 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.
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Alfawolf2013
Aug 5, 2024
Visit Nice..but warm - Hello friends, Our family likes to visit municipalities with grass-tourist interest, and Merida is one of them.. Within Mérida, we can find many points of interest, and one of them, if not the most important, the Roman Theatre of Mérrida, totally recommended, with lots of water and lots of shade.. and advisable to buy tickets on the website of the Consortium of Mérida, because for little money, you can enter different locations of interest.. Very cool the visit, and if you do it with a Guide, much better, I have a good memory, but I do not remember the name of the Guide, but I do remember, he had pink hair.. very Pro and very entertaining and entertaining the visit.
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Cynthiamara_b
Mar 2, 2024
Excellent tour of Merida - Our guide Alícia knew her history really well and took us through all the ruins that the Romans left behind in Merida. We really enjoyed this tour.
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408richied
Feb 8, 2024
Must visit - We bought tickets on site and there was no long lines, considering it was peak season. Parking is available around the area , we did walk a little from the parking going to the ruins. A must do tour when you visit Spain Extramadura Region!
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Tour12429690719
Dec 27, 2023
Worth - The guide was charming, everything was well explained and enjoyable. And the perfect route, a good connection with Mérida
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Monrealmillan
Nov 1, 2023
Spectacular - Spectacular. You have to go at least once in your life to a concert, a play or any performance. Unique stage, spectacular acoustics.
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Mjosep360
Apr 5, 2024
A little short - Maybe it falls a little short. Neither the house nor the circus is explained, to which you have to go on your own and without a guide. Good explanation of the guide, Alicia
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Onair56335301500
Oct 4, 2024
A well-used morning - A guide with good explanations, quite a few visits. It is very enjoyable having spent more than four hours touring Merida.
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X5080zjcarmenf
Mar 29, 2024
We left halfway through the tour and I had to buy amphitheater tickets again - The guide was unfriendly. I drew the attention of other children outside the group as if they were my children who did nothing and like this many other examples
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).