HACIENDA BLANCA FLOR

Located in the 65 km road Campeche-Merida Santa Cruz village, Hecelchakan, Campeche, is located the Hacienda Blanca Flor built four years ago in the late sixteenth century (1588) was the constructor Fray Alarife Maese Pedro Peña Claros, order Franciscan. For two hundred years it was home to clerics and soldiers who conquered with the weapons of faith and the Yucatan Peninsula. In 1843 in the "caste war" between Indians and mestizos it becomes the cemetery of its inhabitants to be cut all supplies by Mayan ethnic groups. In 1863 the Empress Carlota Amalia, wife of Maximilian of Hapsburg staying at these facilities on their way from the city of Merida to Mexico City.