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There’s not a bad place to celebrate Cinco<\/span> de Mayo this weekend, but there are some standout locations such as San Diego’s Old Town, Los Angeles Olvera<\/span> Street, and San Francisco’s Dolores Park event.<\/p>\n Cinco<\/span> de Mayo means\u00a05th of May in Spanish. It pays tribute to the Mexican victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in on May 5, 1862. Though it is celebrated in the Puebla region of Mexico as an important milestone in\u00a0the effort to fight off the occupying French, the\u00a0festivities\u00a0in California are actually more widespread. In our state Cinco<\/span> de Mayo usually equates\u00a0with\u00a0drinking margaritas and Mexican beers, eating Mexican foods such as tacos\u00a0&\u00a0tamales, and watching folklorico dancers and mariachi bands. \u00a0Just like “everyone’s Irish” on St. Patrick’s Day, everyone\u00a0embraces\u00a0Mexican culture on Cinco<\/span> de Mayo. \u00a0Here’s our list of places to celebrate the holiday<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s not a bad place to celebrate Cinco de Mayo this weekend, but there are some standout locations such as San Diego’s Old Town, Los Angeles Olvera Street, and San Francisco’s Dolores Park event. Cinco de Mayo means\u00a05th of May in Spanish. It pays tribute to the Mexican victory over the French at the Battle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16272"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}