Tuesday, October 03, 2006

 

Festival Internacional Cervantino


As if 6 weeks of celebrating Mexican Independence "Day" weren't enough, tomorrow marks the beginning of the Festival Internacional Cervantino in nearby Guanajuato, a festival that lasts for a mere 2 1/2 weeks. It's a celebration of medieval arts, dance, street theater and music - although someone who actually lives in Guanajuato described it as a smaller-scale mardi gras (which is certainly how we felt during some of the Independence Day activities). For some reason the people of Gto. have a fascination with Cervantes (maybe because he's one of the best Spanish authors of all time who's generally credited with inventing the modern novel?) - anyway, you can find the Quixote Iconographic Museum there that exhibits works from artists all over the world (including Dali, Picasso, Rafael) featuring Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.

But the only part of this history lesson that you need to remember is that Miguel de Cervantes said, "Too much sanity may be madness, and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."

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