“Gigantic Otomi Doll, Lelé, Visits Times Square to Promote Querétaro Tourism”

The tourist district of Times Square in NY received this Thursday lele a gigantic doll Of the old Otomi cultureand an icon of Mexico, who for 3 days will promote his native state of Querétaro as a tourist destination.

Wearing her white skirt, pink blouse, long braids and crown of colored ribbons, typical garments of the women Of the municipality of Amealco where she was born Lelé, who has his own park in Mexico, came to NY coming from Philadelphia and Denver and then going to Chicago, as part of the campaign launched this year “#LeléPorElMundo”.

The campaign of diplomacy, of the Secretary of Foreign Relationsin collaboration with the Government of Queretarohas the purpose of promoting in the international arena the manifestations and cultural traditions of Mexican communities, as well as their ethnic and linguistic diversity.

During the stay of the handmade doll almost 4 meters high in NYwhere she was received by the Consul Jorge Islastiny samples of Lelé will be given away, ribbon headbands like the ones she wears and information will be available about Queretarosecond tourist destination no beach nationwide, after Mexico City.

Among those destinations is the capital of the city with its historic centerwhere the Constitution was signed, vineyards, as well as six “Magic towns“as Mexico calls the towns that preserve their cultural legacysaid to EFE Yara Beltrán, spokesperson for the Querétaro Ministry of Tourism.

Islands, whose grandparents were from otomi originremembered that lele means “baby” in that culture “but in the Mesoamerican worldview and cosmology, it was made to ward off the bad vibes or spirits of children.

“People thought it was a toye, that it was, but it fulfilled another purpose of protecting. We bring Lelé to protect New Yorkers, ”he said.

lele She is originally from the municipality of Amealcowhere you make your home in the Doll Museumand was named Cultural heritage of the state of Querétaro on April 18, 2018.

With information and image from EFE