Museum
Hacienda Mundaca
C. P.º de los Peces, 77402 Isla Mujeres, Q.R.
Overgrown ruins with carved stone arches, tropical gardens and a pirate legend of unrequited love.
This guide to Hacienda Mundaca on Isla Mujeres opens at a carved tomb with a skull and crossbones and an unsettling inscription, built by Fermin Mundaca, a Spanish sailor who arrived in 1854 with a fortune made smuggling and pirating. It follows how he carved out a sprawling estate on the island, and how it all turned toward a teenage girl named Martiniana Gomez Pantoja, whom islanders called La Trigueña. Look for her name carved into the archway above the gardens, an offering meant to win her heart.
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