This ritual known as Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead is celebrated in mexico and in other parts of the world but with a different name i guess. The said celebration is more commonly known as the All Souls Day.

The indigenous people already had a long tradition of honoring their ancestors and deceased loved ones with processions and festivals involving flowers, fruits and incense. Some say that the Spaniards found these rituals to be mocking death, and that they tried their best to eliminate the practices. Nowadays, we realize that the Day of the Dead is a day to honor the dead. Today, in homes, churches, cemeteries, and public places, altars with offerings to the dead, invite beloved souls to visit the living.

But in Mexico, although the ritual has since been merged with Catholic theology, it still maintains the basic principles of the Aztec ritual, such as the use of skulls. The skulls were used to symbolize death and rebirth, also to honor the dead, whom the Aztecs and other Meso-American civilizations believed came back to visit during the month-long ritual.

Santuario de Jesús Nazareno
The interior of the convent church of Santuario de Jesús Nazereno and the various chapels are decorated with frescos, mainly by Miguel Antonio Martínez de Pocasangre, depicting attractive traditional themes. Behind the high altar, in the Camarín, there are sculptures of the Virgin Mary and the Apostles. The Rosary Chapel on the right has frescos of the Battle of Lepanto and leads to a Camarín with a ceiling in the form of a shell. Every year the town is the destination of pilgrims from all over mexico. Two weeks before Easter Sunday the statue of the Christ of Señor de la Columna is carried in a grand nocturnal procession into the church of San Juan de Dios in San Miguel de Allende. On the third Sunday in July a local religious festival with Indian dances takes place in Atotonilco.

La Quebrada
What would a mexican vacation be without your seeing the famous cliff divers of Acapulco? This is a site to behold as young boys jump from a cliff, which is more than a hundred feet above the water, and into an inlet that is only slightly over 9 feet deep. The cliffs of La Quebrada is one of the greatest tourist attractions in Acapulco, and these divers have been one of the most popular sites here since 1940. The La Quebrada Cliff Divers are a group of professional high divers, based in Acapulco, mexico. They perform daily shows for the public, which involve diving 45 metres (148 ft) from the cliffs of La Quebrada into the sea below. You can view these divers while having a snack or a meal at the famous La Perla restaurant, which is right across from where these young men jump into the Pacific. You can even see divers jump at night with lit torches from this restaurant.

Oaxaca – Iglesia de Santa Domingo
The splendid Iglesia de Santo Domingo, a Dominican church founded in 1575, is situated five blocks north of the main square. The church and the adjoining convent, built with 2m (6.5ft)-thick walls to make it almost completely earthquake-proof, cover an area of 150 m (492 ft) 3 150 m (492 ft). There are numerous niches filled with statues in the impressive Baroque façade. The overall impression is more of a palace than a church. The rustic style of the coloured statues lend the nave, choir arch and chapels a distinctive mexican note. On the ceiling above the entrance can be seen a vine, from whose golden branches and leaves grow 34 portraits. These depict the family tree of St Domingo de Guzmán, the founder of the Dominican order who died in 1221 and who was related to the royal familes of Spain and Portugal. The lavishly-decorated altar with a figure of the Virgin Mary is considered a jewel of Mexican Rococo.

Cuernavaca Cathedral
The cathedral, located on the corner of Hidalgo and Morelos streets, began life as a Franciscan friary, founded by Hernán Cortés in 1529. Work started on the fortress-like complex in 1533. The side portal of the church has a fine colonial-Plateresque façade with, above the gable, the symbols of a crown, cross, skull and bones framed by an alfiz. The Chapel of the Third Order, at the rear of the monastery building, has a very typical mexican Baroque façade, embellished with a small figure representing Hernán Cortés. Like the chapel’s lovely carved wooden altar (1735), the façade shows strong Indian influence. Adjoining the cathedral stands the spacious Open Chapel, its vaulting supported on three arches. Two buttresses reinforce the central columns. Remains of murals showing the lineage of the Franciscan order can be seen in the cloister. Every Sunday a folk mass is celebrated in the cathedral to the accompaniment of mariachi music. Mariachi players also perform there on Sunday and Wednesday evenings.

Zacatecas Cathedral
The magnificent cathedral, which stands on the Plaza Hidalgo, is for many people the most perfect example of the mexican Churrigueresque style. The building was begun in 1612 on the site of an earlier church, but the form it has today is primarily the result of additions dating from the period 1730-60. The façade, with its exceptionally elaborate decorative work which is typical of the richness of form of Spanish-Mexican Baroque, has illustrations of Christ with the twelve apostles, four Church Fathers around the chancel window, and in the uppermost section God the Father surrounded by eight angels making music. These images are fashioned with a mixture of Romanesque elements and motives derived from the Indian philosophy of life. The dome was rebuilt in 1836. The austere interior, mainly decorated in the Neo-Classical style, is disappointing; the exceptionally rich fittings (gold and silver objects, European paintings, etc.) which were once there disappeared during the Reform War and the turmoil of the Revolution.

The cathedral faces south. The main portal in the center of the front facade has statues of Saint Peter and Paul the Apostle, while Saint Andrew and James the Just are on the secondary doorway. In the center of this doorway is a high relief of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, to whom the cathedral is dedicated. This image is flanked by images of Saint Matthew and Saint Andrew. The coat of arms of mexico is above the doorway, with the eagle’s wings outstretched. There is a clock tower at the very top of the portal with statues representing Faith, Hope and Charity, which was created by sculptor Manuel Tolsá. The west facade has three-sections with images of the Four Evangelists. The west portal has reliefs depicting Jesus handing the Keys of Heaven to Saint Peter. The northern facade was built during the 16th century in the Renaissance Herrera style. It’is the oldest part of the cathedral and was named after Juan de Herrera, architect of the El Escorial monastery in Spain. All the high reliefs of the portals of the cathedral were inspired by the work of Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens.