Travel Mexico Solo on MSN3 个月
The Skeleton Queen: How La Catrina Became the Icon of Day of the Dead
La Catrina, also known as La Calavera Catrina, is one of Mexico’s most iconic symbols of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) ...
Travel Mexico Solo on MSN3 个月
Everything You Know About Day of the Dead is WRONG (The True Story Behind Mexico’s Iconic ...
La Catrina is often depicted as a skeleton ... In 2008, UNESCO recognized Mexico’s Day of the Dead as part of the “Intangible ...
BBC4 个月
Day of the Dead: What is it and how is it celebrated?
and her image was later turned into a huge mural in Mexico city by the famous artist Diego Rivera (husband of Frida Kahlo). Many people dress up like La Catrina on Day of the Dead, and eat sugar ...
BBC2 年
Six important Día de los Muertos symbols
La Catrina has become a prominent symbol of death in Mexico, and is the inspiration for a lot of Day of the Dead makeup and costumes. People make figurines out of clay, wood or paper mache to ...
Smithsonian Magazine1 年
Celebrate the Day of the Dead from Home with Music, Butterfly Science, Cultural ...
Created around 1910, José Posada's woodcut of the elegant skeleton la Catrina (detail ... Indigenous areas of Mexico, during the 1980s Day of the Dead celebrations began to become popular ...