Det sker i San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico året igennem

Travlt — Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo, skoleferie på 3 af de markeder, der fylder stedet

• Festival

  Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo

  4.–23. jan.Religiøs højtidTætpakket

  Three weeks of Parachico dancers in carved wooden masks and blond headdresses processing between the churches of Chiapa de Corzo, an hour down the valley. UNESCO lists it, and it is still a village doing it for itself. Kilde ↗

Stadig i gang: Highland dry season (1. nov. – 30. apr.)

Travlt — en af stedets bedste måneder vejrmæssigt

Intet nyt begynder i februar.

Stadig i gang: Highland dry season (1. nov. – 30. apr.)

Tætpakket — Semana Santa and Pascua, Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz

• Helligdag

  Semana Santa and Pascua

  29. mar. – 12. apr.Påske & den stille ugeTætpakketBook tidligtLukninger

  Holy Week and the Easter week after it are Mexico's main spring break: schools close, domestic travellers fill hotels and long-distance buses, rates rise, and many offices and shops shut on Holy Thursday and Good Friday. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz

  25. mar. – 30. apr. · normaltStor festivalTætpakket

  The town's own fair, held the week after Holy Week: fairground on the edge of town, food stalls, dances and a bullring. Rooms are tight for a fortnight because Semana Santa runs straight into it. Kilde ↗

Stadig i gang: Highland dry season (1. nov. – 30. apr.)

Tætpakket — Semana Santa and Pascua, Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz

Intet nyt begynder i april.

Stadig i gang: Semana Santa and Pascua (29. mar. – 12. apr.), Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz (25. mar. – 30. apr. (normalt)), Highland dry season (1. nov. – 30. apr.)

Skuldersæson — en helt almindelig måned

Intet nyt begynder i maj.

Travlt — San Juan Bautista in Chamula, skoleferie på 3 af de markeder, der fylder stedet

• Festival

  San Juan Bautista in Chamula

  23.–24. jun.Religiøs højtidTætpakket

  San Juan Chamula, a short drive from town, honours its patron saint on 24 June with pilgrims, music, fireworks and the handover of flowers by the traditional authorities. Photography inside the church is forbidden and is taken seriously. Kilde ↗

Travlt — Fiesta de San Cristóbal Mártir, skoleferie på 3 af de markeder, der fylder stedet

• Festival

  Fiesta de San Cristóbal Mártir

  17.–25. jul.Religiøs højtidTætpakket

  The town's patron-saint fiesta runs through the week before 25 July, with night processions lit by pine torches up the long stairway to the San Cristóbal church on its hill, stalls of local sweets and bands. Kilde ↗

Stille — skoleferie på 3 af de markeder, der fylder stedet, en af stedets værste måneder vejrmæssigt

Intet nyt begynder i august.

Travlt — Independence Day, skoleferie på 2 af de markeder, der fylder stedet

• Helligdag

  Independence Day

  15.–16. sep.National helligdagTætpakketLukninger

  On the night of 15 September thousands gather in the main square for the Grito from the balcony of the old municipal palace, followed next morning by a parade. Central streets close to traffic for both. Kilde ↗

Skuldersæson — en helt almindelig måned

• Festival

  Festival Cervantino-Barroco

  20. okt. – 5. nov. · normaltKunstfestival

  A week of music and theatre in the courtyards and churches of the centre at the end of October, mostly free and mostly indoors, which matters when the highland evenings are cold and damp. Kilde ↗

Skuldersæson — en helt almindelig måned

• Sæson

  Highland dry season

  1. nov. – 30. apr.

  The months the unpaved roads out to the Lagunas de Montebello and the Tzotzil villages are reliable and the afternoons stay clear. Nights at two thousand two hundred metres are cold enough for the wood smoke to hang in the streets.

Stadig i gang: Festival Cervantino-Barroco (20. okt. – 5. nov. (normalt))

Travlt — Virgen de Guadalupe processions, skoleferie på 3 af de markeder, der fylder stedet

• Festival

  Virgen de Guadalupe processions

  1.–12. dec.Religiøs højtidTætpakket

  Runners carrying torches come in from the highland villages for twelve days, and the barrio around the Guadalupe church stays up all night on the eleventh. Traffic in the centre stops for it. Kilde ↗

Stadig i gang: Highland dry season (1. nov. – 30. apr.)