Cosa c'è in programma a San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Messico) durante l'anno

Affollato — Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo, vacanze scolastiche in 3 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

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  Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo

  4–23 genFesta religiosaAffollato

  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. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Highland dry season (1 nov – 30 apr)

Affollato — uno dei mesi con il clima migliore

In febbraio non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Highland dry season (1 nov – 30 apr)

Folla al massimo — Semana Santa and Pascua, Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz

• Festività

  Semana Santa and Pascua

  29 mar – 12 aprPasqua e Settimana SantaAffollatoPrenota prestoChiusure

  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. Fonte ↗

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  Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz

  25 mar – 30 apr · di solitoGrande festaAffollato

  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. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Highland dry season (1 nov – 30 apr)

Folla al massimo — Semana Santa and Pascua, Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz

In aprile non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Semana Santa and Pascua (29 mar – 12 apr), Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz (25 mar – 30 apr (di solito)), Highland dry season (1 nov – 30 apr)

Media stagione — un mese nella media

In maggio non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Affollato — San Juan Bautista in Chamula, vacanze scolastiche in 3 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

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  San Juan Bautista in Chamula

  23–24 giuFesta religiosaAffollato

  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. Fonte ↗

Affollato — Fiesta de San Cristóbal Mártir, vacanze scolastiche in 3 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

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  Fiesta de San Cristóbal Mártir

  17–25 lugFesta religiosaAffollato

  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. Fonte ↗

Tranquillo — vacanze scolastiche in 3 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori, uno dei mesi con il clima peggiore

In agosto non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Affollato — Independence Day, vacanze scolastiche in 2 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

• Festività

  Independence Day

  15–16 setFesta nazionaleAffollatoChiusure

  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. Fonte ↗

Media stagione — un mese nella media

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  Festival Cervantino-Barroco

  20 ott – 5 nov · di solitoFestival delle arti

  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. Fonte ↗

Media stagione — un mese nella media

• Stagione

  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.

Ancora in corso: Festival Cervantino-Barroco (20 ott – 5 nov (di solito))

Affollato — Virgen de Guadalupe processions, vacanze scolastiche in 3 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

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  Virgen de Guadalupe processions

  1–12 dicFesta religiosaAffollato

  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. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Highland dry season (1 nov – 30 apr)