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La Alborada fireworks

An insider’s guide to celebrating 101 triumphant years of ‘La Alborada’...

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More than a century after factory workers revived the tradition of decorated stars and fireworks at dawn, the event lights up the skies again. Here's what you need to know about the biggest festival in town.

CDMX Design Open takes over Chapultepec with the theme ‘Weeds. Design...

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The nation's most expansive urban park will host the 10-day Mexico City Design Open, a wildly inventive festival probing how cutting-edge design can improve our environment and our lives.
Maya embroidery

Yucatán, Nuevo León showcase innovative cultural policies at UNESCO Mondiacult

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Nuevo León's "Cultural Spheres" and Yucatán's "Safeguarding Plan for Yucatecan Maya Embroidery" will serve as case studies at the world’s largest cultural policy conference, happening this week in Barcelona.
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Spark 2025: Art of the Story’s new festival burns bright

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Sign up now for Spark 2025, as San Miguel's Art of the Story promises the biggest, brightest youth creative festival yet!
hibiscus flowers

Taste of Mexico: Jamaica

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It actually has nothing at all to do with the Caribbean, we promise. It is an essential taste of Mexico, though.
Frida Kahlo and La Casa Roja

Casa Roja, a new Frida Kahlo museum focused on her family life, opens in...

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The new museum occupies what was once the Kahlo family home, and was occupied by their direct descendants until just two years ago.
Durango Yuma music collective

These Durango musicians have tapped into the secret music of mushrooms

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The band members insist that their project is not just a novelty but a way to consider plants and fungi as active, responsive beings rather than passive life forms.
tacos on a plate

Mexico’s leading role at the world’s largest tourism fair will include a ‘Taco Challenge’

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Mexico will take center stage at next January's International Tourism Trade Fair (FITUR), which will be held, as always, in Madrid, Spain.
A calavera skeleton playing a guitar

Made in Mexico: Corridos

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The corrido is best known for soundtracking Mexico's cartel violence, but the genre has a far longer and more important history than that.
Andrés ta Chikinib

This Chiapas teacher of his Tzotzil language has a star pupil: ChatGPT

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Andrés ta Chikinib, 29, from the Maya community of Zinacantán, could find no material for teaching the Indigenous language, so he created his own with AI.
Dia de Muertos in Mexico

Test your knowledge: How well do you know Mexico’s cultural profile?

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How much do you know about the cultural values of Mexico? You're about to find out with our MND quiz, based on a famed psychological model.
Huasteca Potosína waterfalls

If you like Croatia’s Plitvice Lakes, then you will love Huasteca Potosina in Mexico

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Globetrotting Nellie Huang is a big fan of Croatia's gorgeous Plitvice Lakes. But she thinks Huasteca Potosina in Mexico is even better.
Tamarind fruit

Taste of Mexico: Tamarindo

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It might not be a native flavor, but that hasn't stopped tamarind from becoming a vital taste of Mexico.
lego day of the dead sets

Lego turns to Mexican tradition for its new Day of the Dead set

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Lego enthusiasts have given the new edition a thumbs-up, and the Mexican reaction on social media so far seems to be one of pride.
Mexico archaeological site

Talk to the gods: The best archaeological sites to visit in Mexico City

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Whether in the subway system or next to a Catholic cathedral, the best archaeological sites in Mexico City are often hidden in plain sight. Here's where to find the best of them.
Belinda Perigrin

‘Mentiras, La Serie’ is a playful television spin on Mexico’s longest-running musical

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One of the longest running musicals in Mexico history has made it to the small screen thanks to Amazon Prime.