Aguascalientes - Festival de las Calaveras

Let´s visit the traditional Calaveras Festival in the beautiful town of Aguascalientes. We will visit: Historical Center, Aguascalientes and Guadalupe Posada Museum, Goberment Palace, Main Square, 3 Centurias, San Marcos Islan, Square and Catedral.

With the best fest Parade of the Day of Dead in Mexico. with more than 20 years old.

The Calaveras Festival is one of Aguascalientes’ biggest attractions. Year after year, at the end of October and the beginning of November, the city turns into a picturesque celebration of those who have passed away. The festival has been held every year for the last twenty years. http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/f/7/2/600_455488530.jpeg

The objective behind this colorful festival is to rescue and preserve the traditions of the Day of the Dead and to pay homage to one of Mexico’s greatest artists, José Guadalupe Posada, who is internationally acclaimed for his engravings and illustrations, and was born in Aguascalientes.

Posada created the “Calavera Garbancera” (the female pea Vendor Skeleton) who was later dubbed “La Catrina” by Diego Rivera. Every year she hosts and adorns the Calaveras Festival and is an international symbol of Mexico’s festive approach to death.

We invite you to experience the Calaveras Festival at the Isla San Marcos where you can enjoy the magic, beauty and mysticism of the occasion. Participate in performance art that brings to life the characters created by José Guadalupe Posada.

Live the festival to its fullest by enjoying handicraft exhibits, treating your taste-buds to delicious local cuisine, getting into the groove of local music at concerts and checking out the streets of this historic city. There are plenty of events to enjoy and plenty of pavilions with activities organized just for you. Don’t forget to try the delicious bread, made especially for the Day of the Dead.

Once you’ve seen the Festival you’ll want to come back every year to relive this unique experience which will evoke very special memories of the Day of the Dead. Music, theater, culture, fun, tradition and entertainment await you in Aguascalientes. Come and live the Calaveras Festival! La Catrina is an engraving in metal created in 1912 by José Guadalupe Posada. Acknowledged as one of Mexico’s greatest artists, he was born in Aguascalientes in 1852.

Why is she famous? Largely because she represents the way that Mexicans caricature death and poke fun at it. This tendency has found expression in many artistic and cultural creations throughout Mexican history. In fact, it was Diego Rivera who immortalized her with the name Catrina in one of his murals, where he appears arm in arm with La Catrina while Frida Kahlo stands just behind them. This image turned La Catrina into a popular folk character, and is now identified with Mexican culture around the world.

Also in Aguascalientes, you can visit the Museum of Death (with more than 2000 death-related exhibits). If you visit in late October/early November you can experience and enjoy the Day of the Dead celebrations and the Calaveras Festival, featuring festivities, altars to the dead, costumes, concerts, shows, plays, nighttime cemetery visits and much more.

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Reservation before October the 22nd 2018 . it is important to make reservations to make appropriate reservations of the hotel, since it is high season, if there is not a minimum group of attendants the tour can be canceled, so that confirms your assistance to reserve your place, if you can really attend.

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