Inside Yucatan | Susana Ordovas

Exploring forgotten regions of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, Susana Ordovas and photographer Guido Taroni uncover the faded splendor of both neglected and restored homes.Susana Ordovas's Inside Yucatan is an ode to the merging of the ancient with the contemporary. At the turn of the 20th century, more millionaires lived in Merida than in any other city in the world, building and transforming breathtaking, lavish homes nestled into the surrounding tropical greenery like hidden jewels. Over time, nature conquered, leaving crumbling structures in place of what were once vibrant, ornately-decorated estates. But today, Ordovas reveals, Yucatan's "forsaken, decaying ruins, remnants of an illustrious past . . . are awakening from a centuries-old siesta."