Discover Mexico's most dangerous fireworks festival

In Tultepec, north of Mexico City, generations of fireworks-making families prepare for a wild pyrotechnic festival honouring the patron saint of fireworks.

A blazing portrait of a town whose faith, livelihood and danger all burn in the same fireworks.

Tultepec is an urban municipality just north of Mexico City revered for its incendiary veneration of John of God, patron saint of fireworks. In the days leading up to the first week of March, the streets of Tultepec are

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