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Saturday, February 04, 2012

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Huaquechula Town's Day of the Dead

Huaquechula was a prehispanic town in Puebla State that has a long tradition to set its "Day of the Dead" altars whose are displayed to the number of people who passed away every year in town. Huaquechula also has one of the Franciscan monasteries in the region.

Local people invite the visitors to walk in their homes and admire the family altars and when the family economy is quite good you might be invited to get a drink or a complete meal...for free!

Huipil Queen

Queen of Huipil in Cuetzalan is one of the most beautiful celebrations in the Sierra Norte of Puebla State. Where the local board of aged elects and crownes a native maid among a small group of candidates to be the Queen of Huipil. Huipil is prehispanic cloth that is wore by the native ladies. Maid should know the local history, local turistic atractions as well the native folk traditions of the community.

Carnival Fiestas in Puebla City

Carnival Fiestas in Puebla take place in the old neighborhoods and also in Downtown. The origin of the celebration goes back to the strong presence of native Nahua groups in the city since the beginning of the construction of Puebla by them. The natives working in the city and living next to the Spanish ruling caste of Puebla were segregated, so they made their own the Carnival celebrations, making fun of the high class by wearing clothes and masks satirizing high society.

Santa Rosa Kitchen

Part ot Puebla's Past lives on in their kitchens because the splendor of the cuisine art developed mainly during the baroque colonial period.

Because convents played an important role in this evolution in mexican cuisine, their area of influence moved out of the own spaces by offering a way to decorate with Talavera tiles the kitches in the civil houses as well.

The Kitchen in the Dominican Convent of Santa Rosa is an exquisite example of what Talavera work can be done in this important space. According to history, one the most famous Puebla dishes was invented here and the Puebla bishop honored the dish invention by decorating the whole kitchen in Talavera tiles.

The Kitchen is also located at Santa Rosa Handcrafts Museum where you can admired an amazing collection of the Puebla State handcraftship.

China Poblana

The China Poblana Dress is considered the traditional style of dress of women in Mexico. The fashion design of the China Poblana Dress is attributed to Catarina de San Juan (1606-1688) who arrived in Puebla, as a slave just being a girl, during the first part of the 17th Century. Catarina who has as nickname Mirra followed the style of dress of her birth country, India, completely wrapped in a embroidered sari and incorporates elements from the diverse cultures that were mixed in New Spain (Mexico) during three centuries of spanish rule.

Street of Sweets

Santa Clara Street called Sweetshops Street as well is a two-street area where local stores offer you all kinds of the traditional Poblano Candies created during the Baroque Colonial Period at the City Convents. The nous from Santa Cara, Santa Rosa, Santa Monica and Santa Ines Convents were active artisans in the Cuisine Art and Pastry Industry as well.

Good Friday Procession

The Procession on Good Friday has been for centuries an important Catholic religious devotion to commemorate. The Passion of Christ is special in Spain and Hispanic (or Latin) America. Puebla, which has had a rich religious heritage, has been recreating this Procession since 1992 --when the event was reinstituted-- and enacted as it was done until 1861. Nowadays the Procession involves more local people as well as international visitors making it the second most important Good Friday celebration in all of Mexico. The Procession involves the transport, on carriages, of five very important colonial religious images or icons in a centric route around downtown Puebla: Our Lady of Solitude, Jesus of Analco, Our Lady of Sorrows, Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus of the Wonders.