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Red lanterns adorn Mexico City's Chinatown for Chinese New Year and shops offer food to revellers at the <i>Año Nuevo Chino</i> celebrations. Chinese children dress up as lions and dragons for the typical colourful street dances.
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Amaranth and olives are savoured and honoured every year in Tulyehualco, in the west of Xochimilco neighbourhood. Taste different olive oils, devour amaranth hotcakes and see traditional Mexican dancing and dress at the popular Festival of the Olive & Amaranth.
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Stock up on shoes, clothes, jewellery, art, bags and other accessories by independent Mexican designers at the Fusion Art & Design Bazaar. It takes place in Mexico Park, in the capital's Condesa neighbourhood.
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Attend workshops, exhibitions, gastronomic shows, carnival catwalks and more at Mexico City's annual Festival of Drumming and African Culture. Music groups come from across the world and activities take place in El Zócalo and various cultural centres in the capital.
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Elaborate headdresses and celebratory dances spring up in Mexico City's main square, el Zócalo, at the Indigenous Mexica New Year. Women perfume conch shells with incense before blowing them in a homage-paying nod towards the cardinal points.
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During the annual Spring Night Festival, the streets and plazas of Mexico City's historic centre fill with music and dancing till dawn. Acrobatics, street theatre, jazz, classical and other music welcomes the new season in true Mexican-fiesta style.
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The first of Mexico's famous buds and blooms jostle for space at the yearly Flowers and Plants Festival along Paseo de la Reforma. Honey and rich organic coffee are also on sale alongside the flora.
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Top Mexican and international musicians and artists perform in the squares, palaces, cloisters and temples of the capital's historic centre at the Mexico Festival. Tailor your own programme of music, theatre, dance, fine art, literature, children's activities and more.
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The Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra performs its summer repertoire from its home in the Centro Cultural Ollin Yoliztli. Concerts from the programmes chosen by local and international guest directors include Schubert's Fourth Symphony, Beethoven's First and works by Vaughan Williams.
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International freestyle motocross riders rev up in Mexico City at the adrenalin-packed Red Bull X-Fighters. Competitors bring speed and breathtaking air flips to the Monumental Bull Ring, known as Plaza Mexico, before heading onto Egypt, Moscow, Madrid, London and Rome.
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