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Children learn many traditional dances, and shows are put on by folk dance troupes at resorts as well as during fiestas.
They are contracted to play at traditional ritual celebrations, such as baptisms, weddings, quinceañeras (fifteenth birthday parties), fiestas patrias (patriotic festivals), most festivals, and sometimes funerals.
Private spirituality, which was practiced individually or within the family, stressed sacramental and personal devotions, while the public religious stressed processions, fiestas, symbols, and symbolic action that displayed the beliefs of the Mexican Catholic to the rest of the community” (Dolan and Hinojosa, 177).
The Spanish colonists carried on the traditions of their mother country, and to this day there are yearly fiestas in most major towns.
In contemporary Spain, the province of Alicante continues to have a major festival known as Las Fiestas de Moros y Cristianos that is a combination of religious and secular processions, with up to 5,000 lavishly costumed participants.