Living here and now does not mean letting go of the past or forgetting the future completely. It implies stopping, getting deeply involved with your present, using the past as a reference and looking to the future from now. Living in the present is making contact with the totality of life. Find out how to achieve it in our Holistic Fair.
Come march! Patzcuaro Pride ’22 2nd LGBTQ+ March Friday, July 1. Appointment 5:30 PM ex-colegio Jesuita
The Copper Fair is the largest showcase for hammered copper artisans, which is why it seeks to promote and encourage the participation of boys, girls and new youth values, in order to preserve this tradition, since it is the only place in the world where copper is worked, with these ancestral techniques.
Mexico´s biggest Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi Film Festival.
December 8 is a date of great relevance for the Patzcuarense community. It celebrates Mary Immaculate of Health of Patzcuaro, also known Our Lady of Health or Virgin of Health, miraculous image to which thousands of people come to worship and venerate throughout the year, but particularly this holiday. In the year of 1536, Don Vasco de Quiroga, First Bishop of Michoacán, commissioned the indigenous people of the region to make this image, which was made with cane paste, a pre-Hispanic technique used by the Purépechas to make their idols. which is used the marrow of dried corn, ground and mixed with a paste obtained from the bulb of the orchids and which is still used. Of this same paste and in Patzcuaro were also, elaborated among many other images, those of Nuestara Señora de Zapopan and Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos. At first, the image of the Virgin of Health was placed in the chapel of the Hospital of Patzcuaro and was called “Health of the Sick”, but due to its great amount of thanks and healings to the sick, it began to be called “Our Lady of Health”, name as it is known to this […]
1st. – Ihuatzio: Celebration of the new year. The “dance of the old men” is presented. 2 to 6 – Tócuaro: The Three Wise Men. Four days of festivity with presentation of pastorelas. 6 – Pátzcuaro: The Three Wise Men. There is a presentation of pastorelas. – Janitzio: The Three Wise Men. – Ihuatzio: The Magi. The “dance of the old men” is presented. – Tzintzuntzan: The Three Kings (mainly celebrated in Ichupio, municipality of Tzintzuntzan). For three days these characters go around the town delivering gifts. Visitors are treated to fritters with honey and white atole. – Santa Fe de la Laguna: The Magi. There are pastorelas and dances. – Erongaricuaro: The Magi. Celebrations to the child God with the “dance of the old men” and pastorelas in the atrium of the church and through the streets.
The “dance of the old men” is presented.
Domestic animals and birds are decorated with garlands of flowers to bring them to bless.