Hva som skjer i San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico gjennom året

Travelt — Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo, skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Festival

  Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo

  4.–23. janReligiøs høytidMye folk

  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 ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Highland dry season (1. nov – 30. apr)

Travelt — en av de beste månedene værmessig

Ingenting nytt starter i februar.

Fortsatt på gang: Highland dry season (1. nov – 30. apr)

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

• Helligdag

  Semana Santa and Pascua

  29. mar – 12. aprPåske og stillehelgMye folkBestill tidligStengninger

  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 · vanligvisStor festivalMye folk

  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 ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Highland dry season (1. nov – 30. apr)

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

Ingenting nytt starter i april.

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

Skuldersesong — en helt vanlig måned

Ingenting nytt starter i mai.

Travelt — San Juan Bautista in Chamula, skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Festival

  San Juan Bautista in Chamula

  23.–24. junReligiøs høytidMye folk

  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 ↗

Travelt — Fiesta de San Cristóbal Mártir, skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Festival

  Fiesta de San Cristóbal Mártir

  17.–25. julReligiøs høytidMye folk

  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 ↗

Rolig — skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet, en av de dårligste månedene værmessig

Ingenting nytt starter i august.

Travelt — Independence Day, skoleferie i 2 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Helligdag

  Independence Day

  15.–16. sepNasjonaldagMye folkStengninger

  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 ↗

Skuldersesong — en helt vanlig måned

• Festival

  Festival Cervantino-Barroco

  20. okt – 5. nov · vanligvisKunstfestival

  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 ↗

Skuldersesong — en helt vanlig måned

• Sesong

  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.

Fortsatt på gang: Festival Cervantino-Barroco (20. okt – 5. nov (vanligvis))

Travelt — Virgen de Guadalupe processions, skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Festival

  Virgen de Guadalupe processions

  1.–12. desReligiøs høytidMye folk

  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 ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Highland dry season (1. nov – 30. apr)