Yucatan will celebrate the Fiestas Patrias with a series of civic and cultural activities, among which the commemoration of the 214th anniversary of the beginning of the Mexican Independence movement stands out, to be held on the night of Sunday, September 15 in Downtown Merida.
The traditional “Noche del Grito” will be led by the head of the Office of the Governor of the State of Yucatan, María Fritz Sierra, acting as the head of the Executive Branch, from the main balcony of the Government Palace, together with thousands of Yucatecans. Once the formal ceremony is over, the musical group Calibre 50 will be in charge of livening up the evening with its northern-band style.
The group, originally from Mazatlán, Sinaloa, will perform in the Plaza Grande that night.
The activities for the so-called “Month of the Fatherland” began on Monday, September 2nd with the ceremony of raising the monumental flag in La Plancha Park, headed by Fritz Sierra together with civil and military authorities.
According to the schedule, the celebrations will continue next Friday, September 13 with a civic act for the 177th anniversary of the death of Lieutenant Colonel of Engineering Juan Crisóstomo Cano y Cano, to be held at 8:45 a.m. in the park of the Alemán neighborhood of this city.
That same day, at 9:00 a.m., in the park of La Mejorada in the Historic Center of this city, the civic ceremony will be held on the occasion of the 177th anniversary of the Heroic Deed of the Niños Heroes of Chapultepec.
On Sunday the 15th, the activities prior to the Grito de Independencia will begin at 9:00 p.m. with the presentation of entertainers and at 10:45 p.m. the Grito ceremony will begin, led by Fritz Sierra from the headquarters of the Yucatecan Executive Branch. At the end, Calibre 50 will give a free concert in the Historic Center of the Yucatecan capital.
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