Approximately 1,250,000 people attended this Saturday. The Great Day of the Dead Parade According to the statement of the head of the Government of Mexico City, Martí Batres, it was celebrated with a colorful eight-kilometer parade in the capital of Mexico.
The parade proceeded along Paseo de la Reforma until it reached the city’s Zócalo; Thousands of people, including Mexicans and tourists, had gathered on the sides of the route and at stands set up to watch the parade.
on the journey Percussion groups, dancers, and many groups wearing bone garb, floral headbands, and pre-Hispanic costumes or inspired by key elements of Mexican culture participated. such as corn, monarch butterflies, magueyes, chinelos or papel picado. A total of 65 cars passed through Reforma, Juárez and 5 de Mayo.
“This parade is an expression of tradition as well as renewal. Here the creativity of young people, Columns, Lighthouses, cultural centers and thousands of artists is expressed with diversity and faces searching for our roots. According to the newspaper ‘El Universal’, Batres said, “New generations . “This is the Day of the Parade of the Dead, this is tradition, this is our culture, this is Mexico,” he said.