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Here are 10 essential things you should know about Mexico’s most colorful annual event☠️💀

1. The holiday dates back thousands of years with the Aztec, Toltec, PreHispanic community.

2. It has been recognized by UNESCO due its reaffirmation of indigenous life.

3. Altars are an important tradition...(ofrenda)und Marigolds are the main flowers.

4. ...and so are literary calaveras... calavera was used to describe short, humorous poems, which were often sarcastic tombstone epitaphs

5. ...especially the calavera Catrina, is in the Day of the Dead’s most ubiquitous symbol.

6. Families bring food to the dead, <Pan de Muerto is the favorite bread specifically in this date).

7. People dress in costumes.

8. Streets are decorated in papel picado <Artisans stacks colored tissue paper in dozens of layers and make streets full of it>

9. Mexico City hosts an iconic parade every year, the biggest most authentic and popular celebration.

10. Other communities celebrate in unique ways. Specially on 👇🏻📌