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Mexico #3: Party Favors
Blog: Roving Gastronome - 10 January 2011
Beyond Hanal Pixan, fall is dotted with village fiestas and fairs of all sorts. Izamal is notorious for having some kind of festivity from mid-October straight on through December. When we passed through, it was the season for gremios, which pilgrimages to the church, made by each trade syndicate, such as engineers, taxi drivers, etc. [...]
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Where Mayans and Popes Mingle – Izamal, Yucatan State, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 31 August 2010
Residents of Izamal, a small, tidy and charming town near Merida, are very, very fond of yellow (as the photos, below, prove). So much so that Izamal is known in Mexico as “the yellow town” since so many building are painted yellow to match the central church, Monastery Basilica of San Antonio de Padua.
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