Festivals, dances and traditions of Veracruz Mexico

In what is long and width of our territory of Veracruz, the Festival of Veracruz and traditions have given national and international reputation while Veracruz Mexico is a mosaic of patterns and colors. A class, taking into account criteria such as the context, temporality, its origin in the religion and religious paganism. In our State festivities are carried out as the Carnival, which is a traditional Christian celebration, laying down as necessary to keep 40 days of abstinence in what is carnal and sinful during the feast of the Corpus. Before this is the need to establish a period of excess (license controlled by the Church) is that it refers to the name of Carnival, which is placed two or three days before Lent.

Major festivals and traditions of Veracruz:

Candelaria in Tlacotalpan
Carnival of Veracruz
Carnival of singles, Juan Rosas
Congress of witches in Catemaco
Corpus Chriti in Papantla
Cruz de Mayo Alvarado
Cult of death in Naolinco
Day of the lost boy, Tuxpan
Celebrations to Ma. Magdalena in Mexico
Mecotitla party
Procession of silence
Voladores of Papantla
Fiesta de San Jerónimo
Feast of St. Michael the Archangel
Feast of San Andrés Apostol

The photo "homenageando os Deuses" belongs to "Luiz Castro" of the community www.Visitingmexico.info

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