Today is the first day of the first annual festival. There will be sports activities like paragliding, bike race and athletic events.If your interest is more cultural activities also there for you with art exhibitions, photography, folk dance, events opera, symphony, among other interesting activities. From the 30th until the 8th of May.
The construction of the monumental Petatera - Villa de Álvarez
The video was made by director Bogart Rodríguez, and is part of the documentary series "Traditions Colimotas" produced by the Ministry of Culture of the State Government, where many of the important activities in each of the municipalities of the state traditions are explored.
In the documentary the construction of the monumental Petatera observed in addition to the testimony of several important characters that perform the work, talk about the tradition and the reasons why San Felipe de Jesus is the patron saint of the town and others whom are engaged in this festival, but also shows how after the fiesta is over, the work of craftsmen dismantle the bullring.
Colima is a state in western Mexico. It shares its name with its capital and main city, Colima, Colima.
Colima is a small state, sharing a border with the Mexican states of Jalisco to the north and east, and Michoacán to the south. To the west Colima borders the Pacific Ocean. In addition to the capital city of Colima, the state's main cities include Manzanillo and Tecomán.
