Lugares para visitar en Pátzcuaro y sus alrededores

Paper Mache Bulls in Patzcuaro are part and parcel of the most popular Michoacán festivities – very much a part of the Carnival season .   This folk festival begins three days before Ash Wednesday. Beginning on Sunday, our guests at Hotel Mansion Iturbe could wind bands that cheered our magical village, through its different neighborhoods, its streets and squares. In these three days, we saw activities in all suburbs of Patzcuaro where people upheld this tradition that is part of the celebrations leading up to Lent. This Michoacán tradition dates from Don Vasco de Quiroga , when the Spanish evangelists used pretend bulls to capture the attention of the indigenous, who had fled to mountains to escape abuse.   It worked.   The indigenous interpreted the gesture of the pretend bull as a means to celebrate their fiesta of fertility, which eventually would be transformed into what is known as the European Carnival.   Paper Mache Bulls in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán...

Carnival in Patzcuaro – another great tradition.  Year after year, our guests at Hotel Mansión Iturbe can enjoy the popular, colorful spectacle right from their balconies, and absorb the ubiquitous festive ambience.  Carnival in Patzcuaro a Mexican Tradition Among the various activities is the competition of handcrafted bulls, where children and adults alike preserve this long Mexican tradition .  Mexican holidays customs and traditions in Patzcuaro All day long, we can see a variety of these bulls “dancing” to the music of the bands through the streets of Patzcuaro , with the Plaza Vasco de Quiroga as their principal destination.  Mexican Traditions can be enjoyed in Patzcuaro during Carnaval Carnival arrived to the region of Lake Patzcuaro with Don Vasco de Quiroga and the Franciscan monks in the 16th Century, during the Spanish conquest. The “tool” of the handcrafted bulls was used to aid in the evangelization of the indigenous.  The origin...