National Fireworks Festival, March 8

A famous national fireworks competition. The Spanish brought fireworks from their Asian colonies to Mexico. Today they are part of a great many festivals throughout the country. The town of Tultepec is renouned for its elaborate fireworks and fireworks makers, or pirotecnicos. During this festival, each neighborhood tries to outdo the other by building the best and biggest toritos and castillos. The fireworks are an ingenious art form, and there is a competition between master pirotecnicos to build the most spectacular Castillo. At nightfall the fireworks are ignited and burn late into the night. These slides document the traditions associated with this festival.

These slides are housed in LSF Container G.

A descriptive narrative of these slides is found on audiocassettes #4 side A, which is housed in LSF Container RR.