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Symbolic funeral at Nobel laureate's hometown of Aracataca

(22 Apr 2014) The Colombian birthplace of Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez held a symbolic funeral on Monday to honour the poet, who died in Mexico last week. Thousands of people in Aracataca, on Colombia's Caribbean coast, joined in a procession in from Garcia Marquez's childhood home, now a museum dedicated to his life and work, to the church in the centre of town. People were also able to write messages to the revered writer and place them in a glass box, which was then carried to the church for the service. The mourners carried hundreds of yellow flowers and yellow paper butterflies, a reference to the character Mauricio Babilonia, from the "one Hundred Years of Soltitude" novel, who was always trailed by a cloud of yellow butterflies. Yellow was Garcia Marquez's favourite colour. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...