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The following category is for festivals in Mexico, including arts festivals, fairs, carnivals, religious festivals, and other types. When applicable, topics should be moved to appropriate subcategories by type and locale.
The festival also consists of traditional dances such as El Pochó and Los Blanquitos, both with long histories. Another particular characteristic is that Carnival is considered to begin on 20 January, the feast day of Saint Sebastian. [42] The best known Carnival celebrations in Jalisco are in Autlan, Ameca, Tecolotlán and Sayula. They last ...
A fiesta. Most of the fiestas of the state of Nuevo León, Mexico are related to the anniversaries of the foundation of municipalities, the celebration of local Roman Catholic patron saints or exhibitions of the most popular produce of the particular region. The majority are observed at the local level and, given that the greater part of the ...
Festivals in Mexico City (6 P) P. Festivals in Playa del Carmen (2 P) This page was last edited on 3 February 2025, at 18:00 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The Festival Internacional Cervantino (FIC), popularly known as El Cervantino, is a festival which takes place each fall in the city of Guanajuato, located in central Mexico. The festival originates from the mid 20th century, when short plays by Miguel de Cervantes called entremeses (singular entremés) were performed in the city's plazas. In ...
The Hysterical Pageant of the Fiesta c. 1930–1945. On September 16, 1712, the first Fiesta council signed a proclamation declaring there should be a celebration to commemorate the anniversary of the 1692 reconquest (recolonization) of New Mexico by General Don Diego de Vargas (1643–1704). The Spanish were earlier expelled from the city by ...
The following category is for cultural festivals in Mexico, including folk festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, food festivals, and other sorts. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
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 ...