Six giraffes tall and dressed for the Day of the Dead: Mexico City's Catrina takes the world record

She stands 33.4 metres (about 110 feet) over the Zócalo, weighs more than 100 tons, wears a purple dress 27 metres long, and is ringed by some 100,000 marigolds grown in Xochimilco. Mexico City's monumental La Catrina — built by the Xibalbá art workshop from steel and fibreglass, assembled by about 140 people — has been certified by Guinness World Records as the tallest Catrina ever, passing Puerto Vallarta's 2023 mark of 28.15 metres. She keeps watch over the city's Day of the Dead altar until 2 November: José Guadalupe Posada's elegant skeleton, scaled up to the size of the city that invented her.