A casket, covered with a dark cloth and illuminated with candles

Mourning and Mortality Candelight Tours

Name: Mourning and Mortality Candelight Tours
Start: 2024-10-26T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-26T21:15:00-04:00
Location: Ximenez-Fatio House Museum

This spooky candlelight tour focuses on healing practices and death rituals.

Each Fri. & Sat., Sep. 27 - Oct. 26, 2024 | Tours at 6:30 & 7:30 p.m.

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(904) 829-3575

Mourning and Mortality Candelight Tours

(904) 829-3575

Historic Downtown
20 Aviles Street
St. Augustine, FL 32084

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The historic Ximenez-Fatio House Museum offers a spectacularly spooky candlelight tour, every Friday and Saturday, from September 27, through October 26, 2024, at 6:30, and 7:30 p.m.

During the Mourning and Mortality Candlelight Tour, visitors will be guided through the 223-year-old house and museum as they learn how residents practiced mourning rituals in St. Augustine in the 1800s. The tour will be lit only by electric candles to create the ambiance of a home in mourning 200 years ago.

The guide will discuss mourning rituals used by those who lived here in the various eras of St. Augustine's early years, including Afro-Caribbean practices, Spanish-American last rites, and Victorian Spiritualism.

While spooky, this tour is suitable for all ages. Tickets are $22.00 per person and are available in advance.

Admission: $22.00 per person for Mourning and Mortality: A Century of Death. Tickets can be purchased online, here.

When: Every Friday and Saturday, from September 27 through October 26. Tours are given at 6:30, and 7:30 p.m.

Where: Ximenez-Fatio House Museum, 20 Aviles Street, St. Augustine, Florida 32084