The route from the land of the dead to San Andrés Mixquic, a little town just outside Mexico City, is lined with marigolds.

The Day of the Dead – El Día de los Muertos – in Spanish is a Mexican celebration of deceased ancestors. Multi-coloured ...

Over the course of Mexico’s history, Día de los Muertos has provided an intimate space of encounter between the living and the dead at home and at grave altars. Families prepare lavish offerings of ...

The Casa de México in Madrid is exhibiting the largest altar to the dead in Europe. Guillermo González is the designer of ...

Lucia Ortiz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak ...

Mexico City is the most popular Day of the Dead destination, but Mexico's Pueblos Mágicos are worth exploring too, and may be ...

Families in a small town in western Mexico kept an all-night vigil at a candlelit cemetery, waiting for the souls of their ...

As Mexican families prepare for Day of the Dead celebrations, altars are set up to welcome back loved ones under the belief ...

At around 3:09 p.m. local time on Saturday, Nov. 1, an explosion occurred at Waldo’s in Hermosillo that caused a blaze while ...

Authorities have reported that a mayor in Mexico’s Michoacan state was shot and killed during Day of the Dead festivities.

Dia de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a celebration of those who have passed on. An exhibition about the celebration is on ...

In the town of Arocutin, western Mexico, families spent the night in candlelit cemeteries, welcoming the souls of their loved ...