Critics rip Mérida’s 5 ugliest monuments

Mérida, Yucatán — Our historic center is filled with glorious architecture and monuments. But modern Mérida doesn’t always get it right when installing public artwork, according to a local website.

Liberdad de Expresión Yucatán scoured the city and listed the five ugliest monuments in Mérida. See if you agree:

5. Parque de La Mariposa, Butterfly Park, in Melitón Salazar.

“It looks more like a hybrid of moth, bee, wasp and nightmares,” is the unkind critique.

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4. The Xtabay glorieta

Critics are reminded of Little Red Riding Hood.

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3. The Monument to the Ball Game, fracc. Del Parque

It looks more like the monument to the scotch tape, or according to one reader, a monument to a can opener.

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2. The statue of Jacinto Canek

Located at the end of the avenue of the same name, the critic says this does not really honor the famed Mayan revolutionary — why is he on his knees? It is also known as the monument to King Kong.

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1. Fuente Adefesio

The undisputed first-place winner, according to Liberdad de Expresión Yucatán, is in front of Plaza Fiesta. In 2014, it cost $300,000 pesos to replace a perfectly respectable fountain with this.

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Photographs and observations by José Repetto