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Postcard from Zaragoza, Spain: Glowing glass floats honor La Senora del Pilar

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Above: Thirty-thousand pieces of glass were cut and assembled to create a 14-foot-long illuminated reproduction of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar carried through the streets of Zaragoza every October 13th.

An annual 10-day fiesta honors Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza. Music, food trucks, clowns, carnival rides, folk dancing and lively parades of Gigantes y Cabezudos (larger than life-size paper-mache figures) fill the calendar. And, of course, fireworks.

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Postcard from Mexico City: Fantastical creatures paraded through downtown

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Running a fever, Pedro Linares (1906-1992) awoke from his nightmarish sleep with colorful fantastical creatures racing through his head. In 1936, the Mexico City artisan began translating those visions into folk art he labeled alebrijes, a form that has become the livelihood of several towns in Oaxaca, including San Martin Tilcajete.

Celebrating the colorful tradition of Linares, the Museo de Arte Popular in Mexico City began staging an annual parade, Desfile de Alebrijes, 11 years ago. The parade features competitive entries of these creatures, as though on steroids, crafted in papier-mache.

Here are a few snapshots taken on La Reforma today.

 

 

Postcard from Guanajuato, Mexico: Children parade to celebrate El Dia de la Independencia

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Hundreds of proud schoolchildren on the march were the focus of the morning parade celebrating El Dia de la Independencia in Guanajuato.

Many units were led by Father Hidalgos, all sporting the same skull caps with shocks of white hair framing the bald pate associated with the man famed for uttering the cry for independence, El Grito, in 1810.