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Extract from the Caldern Travel Guides: An easy half-day-trip from Quito, just 9km northeast of the capital's outskirts,
Caldern
is a small town renowned for its brightly coloured
dough figures
(
masapn
). The tradition, thought to be pre-Hispanic, was subsumed into Catholicism under All Saints and the Day of the Dead (Nov 1 and 2), when simple, edible bread figures were brought to the cemetery and placed on top of the graves as an offering to the departed souls. Nowadays this has become a very colourful affair and its popularity has spawned a thriving figurine-making industry. You can't eat them, but then you wouldn't want to: many involv...
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