This is the cutest damn thing. Adorable, bizarre, and wistful all at once. It's right across from the State Congress' huge green dome on the Malecon, the Maqueta de Payo Obispo. It's a tiny village, carefully constructed by an architect to be a perfect model of what Chetumal was like in the last century, when it was called Payo Obispo after a local hardwood, now probably logged off and extinct.
I forget the name of the architect and the dates and all that honor student crap. If you're interested you'll go check it out and know all that. If not, why should I care? But even if you don't know diddly about it, the model is so cunning. It's in a little house surrounded by windows so you can walk around and see the whole little village on the shores of a painted bay with old boats. The streets are labeled and coated with sand, the houses are the size of shoe boxes, but totally detailed, right down to each seperate pole supporting each little porch rail. Little water tanks are in each yard, a tiny tower in the central park has a clock. It's like a 3D snapshot of an old timey life and I would love to go there. I've even got a place picked out with a view of the water and across from the park. Far away from the damn schoolyard.