Tlacotalpan's lively Candelaria fest belies its quiet year-round appeal
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- 23 Mar 2022
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The Catholic feast day is one big party here, but the Veracruz town offers picturesque vacationing all year
Arriving at night in Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, the Papaloapan river is an unseen presence riding along beside you. A rural road dotted with streetlamps leads you down a skinny land bridge with the black-as-night river on one side and cattle farms stretching to the horizon on the other.
A hint of fish aroma wafts in through the car windows as you drive, and minus the modern electricity, the area looks very much like it must have when it was filled with sleepy fishing communities before the Spanish conquest.
According to town historian Alvaro Zarrabal, not much is known of Tlacotalpan’s early inhabitants. Read More
