Thousands of people in skull face paint, elaborate headdresses and gowns filled Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma on Sunday for the annual Catrinas Parade, Africanews reports.
Dancers, couples dressed as skeleton brides and grooms and even costumed dogs passed through cheering crowds, with make-up artists spending up to 40 minutes on each face. La Catrina, an elegant skeleton drawn by the illustrator José Guadalupe Posada more than a century ago and later popularised by Diego Rivera, began as a satire of European-style fashion and is now one of Mexico's best-known symbols.
The parade is part of the run-up to the Day of the Dead on 1 and 2 November, when families remember relatives who have died. A bigger city parade with more than 4,000 performers is planned for 31 October, and a 32-metre Catrina will stand in the Zócalo.
Source: Africanews
Photo: Av. de la Republica, Mexico City 2020 by Carlos Valenzuela, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Illustrative image of Mexico City.
