Mexico bids farewell to Garcia Marquez

April 22, 2014 09:56

Mexico has bid farewell to its beloved adopted son, Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in a national tribute filled with the late Nobel winner's favourite roses and music.

A coffee-coloured urn containing his ashes was placed on a podium, surrounded by yellow roses, in Mexico City's domed Fine Arts Palace as a string quartet played classical music.

Dozens of guests applauded when his widow, Mercedes Batch, and other relatives dressed in black arrived at the ornate cultural centre, where Mexico pays tribute to its late artistic icons yesterday.

Hundreds of people lined up outside the palace to pay their last respects to the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude."

Known affectionately as "Gabi," Garcia Marquez died Thursday in the Mexico City house where he lived for decades with his wife and two sons. He was 87.

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