På gång i San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico under året

Mycket folk — Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

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  Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo

  4–23 janReligiös högtidTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Highland dry season (1 nov – 30 apr)

Mycket folk — en av dess bästa vädermånader

Inget nytt börjar i februari.

Pågår fortfarande: Highland dry season (1 nov – 30 apr)

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

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  Semana Santa and Pascua

  29 mar – 12 aprPåsk & stilla veckanTrångtBoka tidigtStängningar

  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. Källa ↗

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  Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz

  25 mar – 30 apr · vanligtvisStor festivalTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Highland dry season (1 nov – 30 apr)

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

Inget nytt börjar i april.

Pågår fortfarande: Semana Santa and Pascua (29 mar – 12 apr), Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz (25 mar – 30 apr (vanligtvis)), Highland dry season (1 nov – 30 apr)

Mellansäsong — en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i maj.

Mycket folk — San Juan Bautista in Chamula, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

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  San Juan Bautista in Chamula

  23–24 junReligiös högtidTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — Fiesta de San Cristóbal Mártir, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

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  Fiesta de San Cristóbal Mártir

  17–25 julReligiös högtidTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Lugnt — skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en av dess sämsta vädermånader

Inget nytt börjar i augusti.

Mycket folk — Independence Day, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

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  Independence Day

  15–16 sepNationell helgdagTrångtStängningar

  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. Källa ↗

Mellansäsong — en helt vanlig månad

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  Festival Cervantino-Barroco

  20 okt – 5 nov · vanligtvisKulturfestival

  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. Källa ↗

Mellansäsong — en helt vanlig månad

• Säsong

  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.

Pågår fortfarande: Festival Cervantino-Barroco (20 okt – 5 nov (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Virgen de Guadalupe processions, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

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  Virgen de Guadalupe processions

  1–12 decReligiös högtidTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Highland dry season (1 nov – 30 apr)