Light the way home.
Tonight, families across Mexico and beyond welcome back the souls of the people they love. Build an ofrenda for someone you miss, whether it's a grandparent, a friend, a pet or a hero. Fill it with marigolds, candles and the things they loved, then light the candles and share it.
Your loved one
Who is this ofrenda for?
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Fill the altar
Tap an offering to place it. Tap a placed offering to move or remove it.
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Light the way home
Lighting the candles dims the room, lays the petal path and sends a few monarchs into the sky.
Your saved ofrendas
Why today
The night the souls come home
In the Día de Muertos tradition, the dead return for a short visit each year. In many places 1 November is for angelitos, the children, and 2 November is for adults. Families clean graves, cook the favourite dishes of the people they've lost and build an altar at home so the visitors know they are remembered.
UNESCO added the "Indigenous festivity dedicated to the dead" to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2008. It blends pre-Hispanic rites with Catholic All Saints' and All Souls' days. It isn't "Mexican Halloween". It is a celebration of memory, and it's often a joyful one.
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