A 20-meter-tall tree rises up into the night sky in the Parque San Jacinto on Javier Mina in the eastern Libertad sector of the city.
In a time-honored tradition that is happily still alive, a stall holder in Guadalajara’s El Refugio Christmas market painstakingly prints out greeting cards, one at a time. The press itself is something of a collector’s item.
The adornments in the city center have been financed by the local Chamber of Commerce.
The explanade of the ex-Penal de Oblatos (former city penitentiary) hosts the ice rink this year.
Multiple Santas flood the city center.
The life-size nativity scene (nacimiento) in Guadalajara’s Plaza de la Liberacion is always a big draw. Creches depicting the scene at Jesus’ birth are hugely popular, with most malls, and many stores, putting on their own displays.