Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Sites of Interest

Convent of San Luis Obispo.

Built in the seventeenth century, sober baroque style facade with images of saints. His altar is dedicated to San Luis Obispo and maintains a large collection of anonymous paintings in oil.


Place where the patron saint "Our Lady of Charity." Over 15 days, in the atrium of the basilica and streets are made of sawdust carpets and carpets of flowers that frame some religious scene, which passes the Virgin on the shoulders of his parishioners.


Gray stone building that stored inside a mural on its foundation, an embossed reproduction of the Codex of Huamantla and a photo gallery.Bullfighting Museum. Excellent displays of bullfighting, models of famous places, posters, photographs and personal belongings of famous bullfighters.



Puppet Museum.



Tlaxcala is the food like most of Mexico's mestizo cuisine. However, Tlaxcala has a highly Hispanic influence, which characterizes it and makes it unique, but most of all delicious. Since ancient times, on land lines Tlascalans gastronomic elements in the culinary arts have been maize and maguey, the latter is produced mead, which produces the pulque fermentation and its variants mixed with fruit, called cured. The maguey is still used today in the local cuisine, with him to the barbecue, the mixiotes, the chinicuiles coming from the root or maguey worms extracted from the stalk of this plant. And finally the muéganos, a type of traditional cookie Huamantla City is special, secret recipe is made with a base of flour, and anise flower water and other ingredients.




Embroidered with Canutillo. Municipality Ancestral embroidery crafts with gold beading dress and coat that is changed each year to the Virgin of Charity, in this place of great tradition. Rugs and Carpets. Craft ephemeral, held in honor of the Virgen de la Caridad, use the color dyed sawdust, flowers and even different arenas finest works and elaborate. The puppet is considered as a traditional toy Mexico, Tlaxcala and their origins in the famous Rosete Aranda Company Automata originating Huamantla City tradition that still continues.
Crafts
The main festival takes place in Huamantla the months of July and August, where they worship the Virgin of Charity where is the famous "Night that No Sleep" which invariably takes place the night of August 14, which are prepared streets adorned with beautiful multi-colored carpets of sawdust and flowers and midnight begins the procession of the Virgin.During Huamantla Fair, the following Saturday 14th August is the typical "Huamantlada" through the streets of the city, where fighting bulls are released to be goaded by the fans in a circuit through the main streets.The fair covers the entire month of August, where we will see events in popular culture and folklore, such as the procession of the Virgen de la Caridad, bullfights and bull runs from midnight, cock fights, artist showcases, dances, the Huamantla clunkers race, the traditional fireworks and rides.
Festivals and traditions
Gastronomy
Puppet Collection Rosete Aranda Company founded in 1835 and puppet shows in the world.
This museum is housed in what was the collector's Huamantla City, is how objects through the story of the city.
Museum of the City.
Palacio Municipal.
Shrine of Our Lady of Charity.

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