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    The document provides information about Day of the Dead celebrations that will take place in Mexico City from October 26th to November 2nd, including a parade in Paseo de la Reforma on October 26th featuring Catrinas, puppets and giant skulls. It also mentions a Great Offering in the Zocalo on October 30th-November 2nd paying tribute to migrants, as well as traditional decorations, Aztec dancing, bread of the dead, and visiting family gravesites as part of honoring and remembering deceased loved ones. Key sites mentioned are the Metropolitan Cathedral, Palace of Fine Arts, Frida Kahlo Museum, Plaza of Coyoacan, trajineras in Xochimilco

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    The document provides information about Day of the Dead celebrations that will take place in Mexico City from October 26th to November 2nd, including a parade in Paseo de la Reforma on October 26th featuring Catrinas, puppets and giant skulls. It also mentions a Great Offering in the Zocalo on October 30th-November 2nd paying tribute to migrants, as well as traditional decorations, Aztec dancing, bread of the dead, and visiting family gravesites as part of honoring and remembering deceased loved ones. Key sites mentioned are the Metropolitan Cathedral, Palace of Fine Arts, Frida Kahlo Museum, Plaza of Coyoacan, trajineras in Xochimilco

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    The document provides information about Day of the Dead celebrations that will take place in Mexico City from October 26th to November 2nd, including a parade in Paseo de la Reforma on October 26th featuring Catrinas, puppets and giant skulls. It also mentions a Great Offering in the Zocalo on October 30th-November 2nd paying tribute to migrants, as well as traditional decorations, Aztec dancing, bread of the dead, and visiting family gravesites as part of honoring and remembering deceased loved ones. Key sites mentioned are the Metropolitan Cathedral, Palace of Fine Arts, Frida Kahlo Museum, Plaza of Coyoacan, trajineras in Xochimilco

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    DAY OF THE DEAD

    PARADE OF THE DAY OF THE DEAD


    In Paseo de la Reforma (Estela de Luz) to Zócalo the Parade of the Dead will take place on October 26 from 4:00
    p.m. (approximate day, to confirm). Catrinas, puppets and giant skulls will tour this parade.

    MEXICAN TRADITION GREAT OFFERING IN TIPS TO ENJOY


    The Day of the Dead is a traditional ZÓCALO We recommend you to wear
    Mexican celebration that honors the It will pay tribute to migrants who comfortable shoes, water bottle,
    dead.1 It takes place on November 1 have lost their lives in search of solar protector and carry 100% the
    and 2 and is linked to the Catholic better opportunities. This Offering battery of your phone and your
    celebrations of All Souls and All will take place on October 30 to camera to capture the beauty of the
    Souls' Day. November 2 (approximate day, to parade.
    confirm)
    ZÓCALO

    CATHEDRAL
    The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary into Heavens (Spanish: Catedral
    Metropolitana de la Asunción de la Santísima Virgen María a los cielos) is the seat of the Roman Catholic
    Archdiocese of Mexico. It is situated atop the former Aztec sacred precinct near the Templo Mayor on the
    northern side of the Plaza de la Constitución (Zócalo) in Downtown Mexico City.

    DECORATION AZTEC DANCE


    Every year we celebrate the day of the dead with The Aztec Dance, “Danza Azteca” in Spanish or
    “Mi’totiliztli” in Nahuatl, is one of the most basic
    traditional decorations, the last year was with trajineras
    with flowers of cempassuchil. manifestations of the artistic and cultural spirit of the
    native people of Mexico. Represents the eternal search
    What will be this year?
    of man for cosmic harmony and integration, both of his
    We wait with enthusiasm…
    body and his spirit, and all the chants of Aztec Dance
    ritual refer to this essential process.
    BELLAS ARTES

    PALACE OF FINE ARTS


    The Palace of Fine Arts is Mexico City’s grandest and most important performance space. It is one of the many
    public buildings begun during the government of Porfirio Díaz, who was in office from 1876 to 1911. The
    building features murals that were executed by some of Mexico’s finest artists, including Diego Rivera, Jose
    Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Roberto Montenegro, and houses exhibition halls for sculpture
    and painting. It is also home to the National Museum of Architecture, and the National Theater.

    BREAD OF THE DEATH OFFERINGS


    Is prepared all around Mexico in the last days of Is a time when families gather to honor and remember
    October and the first days of November and is one of deceased loved ones. It is believed that the souls of the
    the elements used in the altars set to honor the souls dead return to visit the living families in homes,
    during the Day of the dead celebrations. The bread businesses and cemeteries.
    symbolizes a fraternal offering to the souls.
    COYOACÁN

    PLAZA COYOACAN
    Coyoacán, or ‘the place of coyotes,’ in Nahuatle, is a relatively quiet neighborhood in central Mexico City.
    Formerly a rural village, over the years Coyoacán has become a rich pocket of art and history in Mexico’s capital.
    Explore the typically Mexican neighborhood with its many museums, cafés, bookstores and markets.

    MEXICAN TRADITION FRIDA KAHLO MUSEUM


    At the entrance of Coyoacán’s park, Vivero Coyoacán, Coyoacán is where Frida Kahlo spent most of her life,
    stands the Fountain of the Coyotes, one of the most having lived in the same house until her death. This
    iconic fountains in the city. This park is Coyoacán’s 1950’s house is known as La Casa Azul (The Blue House)
    breathing space for it is an oasis of greenery and fresh and was donated by Khalo’s husband, Diego Rivera, with
    air. There are a lot of bars and restaurants to have a the intention of making it a museum in her honor, the
    delicious meal and drinks. Museum of Frida Kahlo.
    XOCHIMILCO

    TRAJINERAS
    Xochimilco in the Nahuatl language means "place of flowery sowing" and was the home of the xochimilca
    culture (dedicated mainly to agriculture) that settled approximately in 1350. This place is characterized by having
    a series of water channels that date from the Prehispanic period, when the valley of Mexico was distinguished by
    the existence of lakes and lagoons almost in its entirety. Travel through the traditional channels of Xochimilco
    where you can find mariachis, marimba, norteños. In addition, you can see a replica of the island of the dolls.

    MEANING TIPS TO ENJOY


    The spanish verb trajinar means “to carry goods from You must arrive an hour before the show to approach
    one side to another”. Trajineras were born in the era of the chinampa, because you will see the work from the
    the former president of Mexico Porfirio Díaz, since he trajinera. We recommend that you keep warm, since
    wanted to please his guests by giving them a tour the function is at night and outdoors, Wear mosquito
    through the famous canals. They are decorated with repellent, do not forget your cell phone charged with
    floral arches with female names. enough battery.
    National Museum of
    Anthropology

    HISTORICAL MUSEUM

    It is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and
    Mahatma Gandhi Street within Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, the museum contains significant archaeological
    and anthropological artifacts from Mexico's pre-Columbian heritage, such as the Stone of the Sun (or the Aztec
    calendar stone) and the Aztec Xochipilli statue.

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