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"Near the start of Paseo Montejo, stepping into the Twin Houses museum feels like a time warp to Yucatán’s golden age: a 1911 Beaux-Arts mansion built for brothers Ernesto and Camilo Cámara Zavala, where I eye an enormous chandelier—the first in Yucatán wired for electricity—on a short guided tour through opulent rooms lined with Italian Carrara marble, French stained glass, ornate plasterwork, and rich wood and gilded furniture." - Sophie Friedman