Thousands of people dressed as La Catrina, the elegant skeleton of Mexican tradition, paraded through Mexico City on Sunday, Euronews reports. The annual Catrinas Parade wound along Paseo de la Reforma with dancers, skeletal brides and grooms, and even dogs in costume.
Many marchers spent 20 to 40 minutes on their painted faces. La Catrina began more than a century ago as a drawing by the illustrator José Guadalupe Posada and was made famous by the painter Diego Rivera. Today she is one of the best-loved symbols of the Day of the Dead, when families remember those they have lost with colour, music and marigolds.
There is more to come. The city is preparing a bigger parade on 31 October, with more than 4,000 performers, 12 floats and two giant balloons, and a 32-metre Catrina will stand in the Zócalo surrounded by marigolds.
Source: Euronews