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Independence season in the town where it started: the Grito on Sep 15, the Sep 16 parade, teatro del pueblo concerts, fireworks and street food for nearly three weeks.
Three days of tacos from across Mexico on the Alhóndiga de Granaditas esplanade — regional taquerías, a Michelin-starred kitchen, cooking workshops, cultural programming and local crafts.
San Miguel's patron-saint festival: the pre-dawn Alborada fireworks over the Parroquia, mojigangas, xúchiles and days of processions and dance.
The 54th edition of Latin America's biggest performing arts festival — 16 days of theatre, music, dance and opera, with France as guest country of honour.
Guanajuato Capital's sugar-craft fair: stalls of hand-painted alfeñique skulls, animals and fruit figures set up around the centro in the run-up to Día de Muertos, alongside the Fiesta del Señor de la Columna.
The Universidad de Guanajuato's Día de Muertos programme, Tradición con Vida: a monumental ofrenda built by students on the steps of the Edificio Central, traditional altars across the centro, the Festival Vive la Muerte, exhibitions, music and community activities.
A month of neighbourhood street parties across Guanajuato Capital: barrios string their callejones with strands of bulbs and sell traditional food and drink under the lights, one barrio at a time.
More than 200 hot-air balloons lift off at sunrise over the Parque Metropolitano lake, plus night glows and headline concerts across four days.
Mexico's biggest feast day in the capital: masses from dawn, baptisms and confirmations, dances in the church atrium, fireworks and stalls of regional antojitos.
The Universidad de Guanajuato's horror film festival: a week of free screenings, retrospectives, essay and short-film competitions and late-night sessions across university auditoriums and historic theatres in the capital.
Mexico's longest-running university book fair: eleven days of book launches, author talks, lectures, workshops, film cycles and concerts in the courtyards of the Universidad de Guanajuato's Edificio Central.
