5 of the Biggest and Best Places to Celebrate Cinco de Mayo This Weekend

Cinco de Mayo is a truly Mexican-American holiday, celebrating not the history behind the holiday — the humble Mexican defeat of a well-equipped French invasion in the town of Puebla — but rather the spirit and pride of the victorious underdog. Interestingly, it’s really not a big holiday in Mexico, while north of the border it’s widely celebrated as an excuse to drink terrible margaritas.

If you’re looking for an excuse to legit connect with Mexican culture, food, and communities though, there are proper Cinco de Mayo festivals happening near just about every major Mexican-American community in the country. Here are five of the biggest and best places to celebrate Cinco de Mayo the right way this year:

1San Diego

San Diego Cinco De Mayo

Fiesta Old Town Cinco de Mayo Festival

Friday through Sunday

This massive three-day free event brings in over 100,000 people each year to San Diego’s Old Town. Start your Cinco de Mayo weekend off with happy hour Lucha Libre after you get off work on Friday. Save up your stamina, though, for Saturday; it’s a full 12-hour marathon of entertainment, food specials, a Folclórico competition, children’s events, and an entire lineup of vendors. Don’t forget to catch lasso artists Rojas Charros on Sunday for some seriously awesome lasso acrobatics.

 

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