As Guadalajara gears up for the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) celebrations next Thursday and Friday, the traditional market in Parque Morelos is once again open for business, selling all manner of traditional foods, toys, trinkets and material for altars.

Work is moving ahead rapidly on Guadalajara’s new planetarium (Planetario Lunaria), which its backers are now boasting will be the most advanced in Latin America.

A train belonging to Guadalajara’s yet-to-be-opened third Tren Ligero (subway) line has been given a new lick of paint – courtesy of some creative graffiti taggers.

Next weekend sees the start of the third annual Sucede Festival, a six-week blitzkrieg of 172 free cultural events presented by 48 groups and companies from both Mexico and abroad in 42 venues in the Guadalajara municipal area.

At 9:38 on a busy Monday morning in September, firefighters arrived at a bean and grain storehouse in Guadalajara’s 130-year-old, sprawling Mercado de Abastos.

Not long after one iconic bookstore closed in Guadalajara, another has opened in its place.