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December 23rd is Night of the Radishes in Oaxaca City (Noche de les Rabanos), a Christmastime festival that has no match in oddity and creativity anywhere else in Mexico. Wild animals, the Virgin of Guadalupe, mythical creatures and scenes of everyday Oaxacan life are all represented in shades of magneta and cream in the form of local radishes grown solely for the occasion it’s a comical, whismical and edible time.

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December 23rd is Night of the Radishes in Oaxaca City (Noche de les Rabanos), a Christmastime festival that has no match in oddity and creativity anywhere else in Mexico. Wild animals, the Virgin of Guadalupe, mythical creatures and scenes of everyday Oaxacan life are all represented in shades of magneta and cream in the form of local radishes grown solely for the occasion it’s a comical, whismical and edible time.

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The Festival is very well planned, but it can only last a few hours because the sculptures are made of radish and spoil very quickly, the event starts at 5 pm and people from all over the world come to see the sculptures.

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The Night of the Radishes (Spanish: Noche de Los Rábanos) is an annual event held on December 23 in Oaxaca, Mexico, dedicated to the carving of oversized radishes (Raphanus sativus) to create scenes that compete for prizes in various categories.

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They are preparing for a radish-carving festival that in 2017 celebrated its 120th anniversary in Oaxaca, Mexico. Rojas and his friend Antonio Aquino continue to carve away at radishes, making figurines of churches, people and Catholic virgin figures as they talk. On the floor beside them are some hundred or so large radishes still to be carved, and everything has to be complete by noon the next day.

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La Noche de los Rábanos, or Night of the Radishes, is an annual tradition in Oaxaca, Mexico. It began over a century ago when merchants carved festive radishes and the sold them in the zócolo (tot  square thaduring the Christmas season.

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It was once a time when farmers were decorating for a festival then they started to carve there Radishes then the other farmers made an better one that an other they were starting a computition.

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The mayor of Oaxaca named Francisco Vasconcelo, in 1897, decided to add this contest to Christmas markets

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While carving pumpkins is a well-known Halloween tradition, in Oaxaca, Mexico, the vegetable carving comes at Christmastime – and instead of a big orange pumpkin, the produce at centre stage is the humble red radish. Noche de Rabanos, or Night of the Radishes, is a tradition stretching back more than a century.

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La Noche de Rábanos, or Night of the Radishes, began when market sellers at the Christmas market held every year in Oaxaca's main square would carve radishes to attract buyers. In 1897, the Municipal President of the city, Francisco Vasconcelos, declared that there would be an official radish-carving competition each year on December 23 and it became an annual tradition.

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Carving a perishable vegetable not only takes an artistic touch -- Rojas is a textile artist when he isn't carving radishes -- but it also holds another challenge: ensuring that the radishes do not wilt before the competition is judged