Day of the Dead in Puebla 2010

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Sunday, September 05, 2010

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Altars in Public Places

Traditional Altars ar put in Puebla public buildings during the Day of the Dead celebrations and you can see a variety of them in the historic area of Puebla City. The altars are just displayed during the 1st and 2nd of November, every day.

Day of the Dead in Puebla, Mexico

Every year around November 2nd, Puebla people have their own mexican way to remember the relatives and friends who already passed away. This celebration goes back to the time when the prehispanic mexicans honor their relatives by cooking traditional dishes to them as well setting an altar to present offerings to the Dead.

With the present of Christianity the antique mexican customs suffered changes by adding christian symbols as the Cruce or Saints images and by re-configurating the altar's stage distribution. It is worth to come over and it!

Workshop

You will get the opportunity to see an artisan's workshop to admire what comes up in the artist's mind to express in either paper or ceramic work what is the Day of the Dead for him or her. The celebration is a happy event and never scaring or dark. It has own sense of humor.

Nahua Cementery

The local cementary is a very vivid expression of what is authentic mexican cross-blended cementery. You admire the love and dedication of relatives to their Dead by putting flower sets next to candles and by burning native inciense in a prehispanic styled vessel. A whole family arrives at the cementary, clean up the tomb, decorate it and finally pray together for the souls.

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!