Located halfway between Mérida and Cancún, Valladolid is presented as a colonial old city which offers to the visitors a pleasant environment like some modest attractions, inter alia churches and houses of XVIe and XVIIe centuries. Valladolid in addition constitutes an excellent starting point towards the ruins of Chichén ltzá, 40 km more in the west.
Even today, as beautiful as certain churches can be on the architectural level, their interior remains often stripped and austere. It is the case, for example, of the beautiful church of San Bernardino de Siena and of the old convent El Sisal, very at side. Located in the western part of the city, these two constructions were set up as from 1552 and are regarded as oldest of Yucatán since the arrival of the Spaniards. Some original paintings are when same visible. The cathedral of San Cervacio (there are several ways of writing it), which faces the central place, presents a beautiful carved frontage, but an interior of most austere.

In Yucatán, one finds that and there cenotes, is places where the ground crumbled to reveal underground sources.

One finds two cenotes with Valladolid. In Cenote Dzitnup (also called Cenote X Keken) (tlj), to 7 km in the west of the downtown area, you will be able to bathe in a cave with crystalline water surmounted by an opening which lets enter light of day. Cenote Zaci (tlj; Calle 36, between Calle 37 and Calle 39), downtown full, is less enticing with its dark water and its green scum, but it is nevertheless picturesque.