The 2025 Day of the Dead Grand Parade that toured Mexico City paid tribute to some of the most prominent characters in Mexican popular culture.
Mexico City, November 1 (However).- The main streets of the Mexico City (CdMx) were filled with hundreds of colorful skulls this Saturday on the occasion of the Great Day of the Dead 2025 Parade, which brought together almost one and a half million residents of the capital.
The event was led by the Head of Government, Clara Brugada, who stressed that the celebrations on the occasion of the Day of the Dead are a tradition that survived throughout the centuries, which was born from love towards those who gave us life and accompany us beyond time.
“Today, in Mexico City we honor one of the deepest and most luminous traditions of our identity: the Day of the Dead, a celebration that reminds us that death is not absence, but living memory; that those who have gone continue to live among us in each marigold flower, in the aroma of copal, in the offering that we prepare with love and in the word we pronounce to name them,” he stressed.
#CulturePress | 💀🌼 The heart of Mexico City beat strongly during the Great Day of the Dead Parade 2025, a celebration that brought together more than 1 million 450 thousand attendees, 8 thousand participants and 50 troupes that filled the streets with color, music and tradition from… pic.twitter.com/kIXDSyBWOa
— Secretary of Culture of Mexico City (@CulturaCiudadMx) November 2, 2025
The Great Day of the Dead 2025 Parade started from the Puerta de los Leones, entrance to the Chapultepec Forest, and traveled along Paseo de la Reforma and other of the main avenues of the Historic Center to the Capital Zócalo.
This year, the event paid tribute to some of the most prominent figures in Mexican popular culture, to the founding of Greater Mexico Tenochtitlán 700 years ago, and to different historical moments, such as the 1985 earthquake.
🌼 #EnVivo | The Grand Parade begins #DíaDeMuertos2025 in Mexico City! 🇲🇽 Follow the broadcast #EnEL21 and live the most vivid tradition of Mexico from the largest city in the world.
— Capital 21 (@Capital21_Tv) November 1, 2025