translated from Spanish: Guadalajara celebrates its 477 anniversary

Guadalajara, Jalisco.-buildings that come to life, multicolored sculptures, thousands of lights and Fireworks inaugurated on Wednesday the GDLuz Festival by the festivities of the 477 anniversary of Guadalajara, capital of the Mexican State West of Jalisco.Un agave of metal resembling a plant cactus from which is extracted the Mexican drink Tequila was the center of the star-studded spectacle of lights led, laser beams, music and fireworks of the festival which will continue to until the next February 16 at various points in the historic center of Guadalajara.
Agave was designed for this festival and is capable of synchronizing music, video, lights and motion using robotic technology that combine with the Mexican popular culture, organizers reported. Amid its ‘leaves’, Mexican charros performed “luck” or acrobatics of Charrería, considered the Mexican traditional sport, with the well-known traditional song of “Guadalajara, Guadalajara”. Millions of lights and images in videomapping light green areas, historical buildings and streets in a walk of about two kilometers in which thousands of spectators who come from all parts of the city gather.
The festival includes 40 interactive attractions as well as the folk of the city ballet performances and concerts of the music of the mariachi joining animations that are projected on the walls of historic buildings including the Cabanas.otro Institute of the attractions is the spectacular “Marakame” that bears the name of the priests of the wixárika Indian culture and which shows part of the traditions of this ethnic group which inhabits the northern part of Jalisco, as well as the States of Zacatecas and Nayarit.El festival account with a tunnel 40 meters of lights, considered the largest in Mexico that it has 720 thousand points of lights LED, in addition to other free lighting points.
Guadalajara was founded on February 14, 1542 and is currently known as the Pearl of the West, and is considered the second most populous of the country’s 4.5 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area comprising eight municipalities.

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