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 The
celebrations of San Miguel Arcangel begin on Friday and finish until Sunday, they are celebrated since the first years of the foundation of the country.
Religious processions, ceremonies, run of bulls, popular concerts and exhibitions are carried out. Music and celebration do not stop,
the popular bands, the mariachis and dancers play music and dance all during these
days to commemorate San Miguel Arcangel.The celebration begins Friday in the evening, diverse peregrinations are made to the parochial temple, already at night the atmosphere arrives at the Main Garden and the esplanade of the Parish, an impressive barroque construction, icon of the city, where people meet to enjoy the bands and groups of mariachi, a realy Mexican night. Music and celebration continue until the dawn of Saturday.  After four in the morning, when the main bell sounds, the spectacle
of fires pyro technicses begins. The sky fills out of lights and color for more than an
hour. It is called "the dawn" and is the way people
greets its Saint. They sing “the Mañanitas” to him, a mexican
traditional song that is intoned to celebrate birthdays and
anniversaries. The musicians accompanied by all the reunited people sing
with joy a year more of the celebrations of San Miguel.
Thus it continues this celebration enjoying the atmosphere, music, and
eating the traditional food like the tamales, made with corn and covered
with a leaf of corn, and drinking a hot atole, that is a cornflour drink or ponche, a drink with alcohol and cooked fruits like guayabas, cane,
raisins and cinnamon among others. Around the kiosk the
traditional danzón begins and the lights of the dawn start to appear.
It
is already Saturday and this tradition continues in the evening. This
time the celebration is made by the way of the station entering the
city the called concheras dances, indigenous bands that bring crosses and offerings. They make its arrival in procession to
the Main Garden around five in the afternoon.
In
front of the parochial temple, the natives stand the “xuchiles”, that are offerings that they themselves
make braiding a plant called teaspoon and flowers of zempaxúchil,
orange flowers that are also used in the altars of the day of deads.
These offerings are adorned with breads and tortillas of different colors and are
mounted on large and heavy frames that the communities load in
shoulders and are offered to their saint.
The
celebrations continue until Sunday. In the morning a solemn mass is made in
honor to San Miguel Arcangel. Later the “castle of eleven” is
burned, it is a group of fire pyrotechnicses making a form, but in this occasion without
lights that pledge. Later the tribute comes to the founder of the city,
Fray Juan of San Miguel, with a parade of dances that continue during
the day in the vestibule and the esplanade of the Parish. The dances
that excel more are the concheras dances, a fusion of preHispanic
ancestral dances and Christian traditions, and the dances of
the Valley of the Maize. In the evening the traditional run of bulls is
made in the plaza of the city and the celebration close
at night with the burn of ingenious castles of different forms and
fireworks that explode in the sky, as well as with a popular dance
made in the Main Garden.
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