Festival de Ofrendas, a one-of-a-kind event in CDMX OCTOBER 2023
With the purpose of preserving our traditions, starting this Friday, October 27, 170 magnificent Day of the Dead offerings will be open to the public and will be placed in different parts of the Historic Center.
Visitors to the first square, will be able to appreciate the work done by government agencies, museums, hotels, restaurants and businessmen of the Historic Center.
It should be noted that this is the fourth uninterrupted year in which these offerings are placed, and it is recommended that those who plan to make the tour, wear comfortable shoes, and can consult the virtual map on the page of the authority of the Historic Center.
The ofrendas will be up until November 5 and are expected to leave a significant economic benefit for businessmen in the downtown area.
Photographs can be taken at all of the ofrendas and they can be visited free of charge.
Unique and special tour in the Cathedral of CDMX for Day of the Dead
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City will open its doors to visitors, tourists and faithful to make them participate in a unique and special tour that only happens once a year and thanks to which it is possible to enter the Chapel of Relics, which was completed in the seventeenth century and preserves the skeletal remains of Catholic saints and martyrs; Among them those of Juan González, one of the first canons that arrived to the country, he became translator of Fray Juan de Zumárraga – first bishop of Mexico – and for that fact he knew and spoke with San Juan Diego, in the days in which the Guadalupe miracle took place.
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