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The monumental offering in the Zócalo Capitalino 

‘With bread you intensively experience the death'

And nobody can deny it, we inherit it, we extract it from our roots and we conserve it because it is a tradition, a legacy, a right going back to our cultural heritage.

The Death causes sorrow, pain, sadness and tears; but, in November, it is the protagonist of a mysterious devotion mixing religion, paganism, fear and derision.

The Celebration of All Saints' Day glorifies life; we remember those who ‘precede us' and we spoil what is ‘visiting us from the hereafter' transforming each corner in offerings with cala­veritas (skeletons of sugar), cempasúchil (yellow sugar flowers), cala­baza en tacha (pumpkin of cane sugar), dulce de piloncillo (sugarcane sweets), meals and of course… the Bread of Dead.

The custom to celebrate All Saints' Day is part of our history and our tradition. It is not only a vacation day but also a day of reflection where the living meditate about what is expecting them in the hereafter.

So, the living and the dead, we join in a single place, we deride the Death fearing it at the same time. For the Cámara Nacional de la Industria Panificadora it turn into tradition and it participate for the fourth year running in the

Monumental offering in the Zócalo Capitalino

‘Offering and death-watch
in the region Lacustre de Pátzcuaro Michoacán'

A celebration surmounting time, reason for festivities in our capital, expecting from year to year, surrounded of significant elements of our culture like the offer­ing, the skulls and the Bread of Dead.