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Festivities: These are traditional holidays to honor religious events, such as Carnival, Holy Week, Easter, etc. or public celebrations, such as Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's Day, etc. Dia de la Independencia or Anniversario de la Independencia , September 16, commemorates Mexico's independence from Spain and is the most important ...
The Mexico City Alebrije Parade is an annual event to honor Mexican handcrafts and folk art, especially a hard kind of papier-mâché called “cartonería” and the creation of fantastic figures with it called “alebrijes.” Alebrijes are chimera-like creatures credited to artisan Pedro Linares painted in bright colors. The alebrijes for ...
Carnival in Mexico ((in Spanish) Carnaval) is celebrated by about 225 communities in various ways, with the largest and best known modern celebrations occurring in Mazatlán and the city of Veracruz. Larger celebrations are also found in the Baja California and Yucatán Peninsulas, similar to other Carnivals with floats, queens and costumes but ...
José García, a 60-year-old shoe shiner from San Antonio Pueblo Nuevo, a township 90 miles (140 kilometers) west of Mexico City, said people with money would bring a group of musicians to the ...
More popular in the United States than in Mexico, [3] Cinco de Mayo has become associated with the celebration of Mexican-American culture. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Celebrations began in Columbia, California , where they have been observed annually since 1862. [ 7 ]
STORY: This parade of skeletons kicked off Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City The Catrina parade is one of the first events leading up to 'Dia de los Muertos' or All Souls' Day on Nov. 2 ...
The National Pyrotechnic Festival (Spanish: Feria Nacional de la Pirotecnia), which takes place in Mexico, is an annual event to promote the country's tradition of production and use of fireworks. It began as celebration in honor of John of God , the patron saint of fireworks makers, in the municipality of Tultepec , State of Mexico , which ...
Mano a Mano, a nonprofit organization celebrating “Mexican culture without borders,” has a list of New York City Day of the Dead events, including one at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery that ...
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