Which Oaxaca festival held on 23 December features elaborate carvings made from radishes?

The Oaxaca festival held on 23 December featuring elaborate carvings made from radishes is the Night of the Radishes.

Known in Spanish as Noche de Rábanos, the event takes place annually in Oaxaca City, Mexico. Participants carve large radishes into figures, scenes, and displays, often depicting Nativity scenes, village life, local traditions, or historic subjects. The creations are exhibited and judged in a public competition.

The festival grew from a Christmas-season market tradition in which vegetable sellers arranged produce attractively to draw customers. Over time, radish carving became the event’s central art form. The vegetables are specially grown for the competition because ordinary market radishes are generally too small or short-lived for elaborate designs.

Although it is associated with Christmas rather than a conventional autumn harvest festival, its subject is agricultural produce and the event developed from a produce market. The carvings are temporary: the radishes wilt soon after the display.