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Marking the end of the festive season, 40 days after Christmas,
Candlemas Day (Candelaria) is a citywide and nationwide traditional
celebration, partly religious and partly pre-Hispanic. A...
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The
(Festival in the Historic
Centre) was inaugurated in 1985 as an exercise in aid of rescuing
and restoring the historic art and architecture of Mexico City's
degenerating town centre. The...
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The lakeland area of Xochimilco, just over 10 miles (16km) south
of Mexico City, with its canals, colourful barges and floating
gardens, provides a fitting setting for an annual festival
honouring...
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Mexicans celebrate the anniversary of their independence from
Spain with great gusto, particularly in Mexico City where the day
before the event the Zocalo fills with throngs of people from...
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A Mexican tradition with Aztec roots is the honouring of the
departed with traditions that nowadays closely resemble those of
Halloween celebrated to the north. In Mexico City markets and
stores...
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Every Fifth of May (Cinco de Mayo) in the state of Puebla, the
famous Battle of Puebla is commemorated with traditional music and
dancing and general festivities. The Battle saw a smaller...
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In Autumn each year the Monarch butterflies gather in southern
Canada and begin a journey across North America to Mexico. The
insects that begin the journey in Canada will never see Mexico,...
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