San Andrés Mixquic, Ciudad de MéxicoCity
Mexico City's most traditional Day of the Dead: the cemetery of this chinampa village in Tláhuac glows with thousands of candles on the night of November 2.
Important Note
It gets very crowded and driving in is slow: consider an organized tour or leave very early.
Important:Dates and programs can change. Verify on the official town site before traveling.
San Andrés Mixquic is an Indigenous village of pre-Hispanic origin in southern Mexico City. Its cemetery surrounds the 16th-century Augustinian convent of San Andrés Apóstol. Every year families clean and decorate the graves with marigolds, and on the night of November 2 they light them with candles in the Alumbrada.