“Feria del Alfeñique” a 50-year tradition

Traditions continue to gain strength as in the 2024 edition of the traditional “Feria del Alfeñique”, where this “Day of the Dead” season is lived in Good Old San Miguel.

Published October 26, 2024

In this new edition from October 14 to November 4, installed as every year and for decades in the Plaza de la Soledad, the general population can purchase the sugar figures made by hand with the ancestral process, with a crunchy or soft texture and sweet and creamy flavors, called “Alfeñiques”, which range from skulls, fruits, vegetables, Mexican dishes, catrinas, and other miniature farm characters and animals, which fill the stands with color.

The 2024 edition of the “Feria del Alfeñique” comes to life, from 9 in the morning until 10 at night.

This is possible thanks to the effort of 40 local exhibiting families, who have been offering wax crafts, homemade-style bread of the dead, papel picado to decorate the altars of the dead, as well as a wide variety of costumes for more than 50 years.

To date, this tradition is the most recognized Mexican holiday worldwide, and in San Miguel it continues to be inherited from generation to generation, both in its preparation and in its commercialization, preserving natural recipes, molding and decoration with vegetable pigments; all with a preparation process that begins in the middle of the year and culminates with the sale in the week alluding to the “Day of the Dead”.

San Miguel Times
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