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8th Acotopan, Hidalgo - Barbecue Fair
This annual fair, celebrating the founding of the city, features
a barbecue with awards for the best tasting recipes for the regional
specialty (roasted mutton wrapped in maguey leaves). There are also
Mexican style rodeos or charreadas, concerts, and cockfights.
16th Catemaco, Veracruz - Day of Our Lady or Carmen
Pilgrims with traditional costumes converge on Lake Catemaco, long
revered by native inhabitants as the place where the world was born,
and today venerated as the sanctuary of Our Lady of Carmen. It’s
a picturesque religious celebration with a wonderful display of
native costumes.
Ciudad del Carmen (Campeche) holds a livestock fair, sports and
boating events.
In Mexico City celebrations are held in the neighbourhood of San
Angel, together with the "Fair of the Flowers", which
has pre-Hispanic origin. Here the people honoured the God Xiuhtecuitl
or "Gentleman of the Flowers" to give thanks for his protection
during the harvest.
21st and 28th 2008 Oaxaca - The Guelaguetza or Lunes del
Cerro
A Zapotec word signifying offering, Guelaguetza was the term used
to describe the ceremony and celebration held each year to ask the
gods for sufficient rain and a bountiful harvest.
This is undoubtedly the most important fiesta in the state, linked
to the agricultural cycle and dedicated to the corn goddess Centeotl.
Representations of the ethnic groups from all the seven regions
of the state gather in Oaxaca and perform offering rites in honour
of Centeotl with music and native dances in traditional costume.
These celebrations take place on the Cerro del Fortín, where
in 1974 an amphitheatre seating about 11,000 was built to accommodate
this major event.
It is impossible to adequately describe the heart-stirring beauty
of this spectacle in its jewel setting - the music, the colour,
the vivacity of the participants spellbinds the audience until the
final Feather Dance (Danza de la Pluma). A number of connected events
take place during these two weeks, such as the contest to select
the goddess Centeotl the Sunday before the start of the festival.
The goddess is chosen from among the candidates who are sent by
each delegation on the basis of her knowledge of her area's history,
customs and traditions.
This event is really worth a stop in Oaxaca, even though the city
is very crowded in this period, and booking your accommodation in
advance is highly recommended.
Last two weeks, Morelia - The International Music Festival
This gorgeous city capital of the state of Michoacan is synonymous
with music and is home to this important festival. A wide array
of concerts take place throughout the city with special performances
by Morelia’s own symphony. The festival also features art
exhibitions and seminars, and attracts outstanding performers of
classical and contemporary music.
25th Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz - Day of St. James the Apostle
Demonstrating the Liseres, Negritos and other local Indian dances.
Cabo San Lucas, Cabo Jazz Festival
The hugely successful Cabo Jazz Festival is scheduled to be held
downtown Cabo San Lucas and at Pueblo Bonito's Sunset Beach Resort
at the end of July, offering international and Mexiacan jazz musicans.
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