Sunday I went to a community called Huaquechula, famous for its non-traditional Day of the Dead altars. They tend to be all one color (predominantly white, though we saw one blue one) and a bit more "modern"--angels, etc. You can contrast that with a more traditional Mexican altar (black, orange, and with catrinas), which I saw on Monday in the Casa de la Cultura in Puebla. The event at the Casa was so popular, a line formed outside and down the block!
On Tuesday, I happened to be downtown with a friend, and we walked by the Cathedral. Wondering what the line was all about, we formed up. Apparently once a year they open the crypt below the main pulpit, where they have entombed previous fathers of the church. One time a year!
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