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fiesta
Dance troupes and marchers
mingle before the parade.
Some marchers take their
work seriously.
orse hooves clatter on cobblestone
streets. Masked dance troupes in
ribbons and fringe primp and preen
as paradewatchers stream toward
El Jardín and the pinkhued neo-
HGothic Parroquia de San Miguel
SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE Arcángel. Fireworks pop in the background.
Drummers practice their riffs. San Miguel de
Allende, known for its endless processions and
fiestas, is ready to celebrate its patron saint.
Hours and days pass in a whirl of images as I
wander back streets, mingling with musicians and
dancers from Michoacán, Chiapas and
throughout Mexico. Pilgrims stream to the city
from rural ranches and farms during the three-
-day Fiesta de San Miguel de Arcángel. City
dwellers mingle with visitors jockeying for prime
viewing spots along the parade route. Amusing
ten-foot-high puppets called mojigangas stroll
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