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Principal Cusco & Peru Festivities
The Cusquenian and the Peruvian in general, is a festive town par excellent that has converted the religious celebrations into popular festivities where ceremonies are very important and the cults such as: dances, meals and beverages. For example there is come typical food that is prepared just for special festivities and it happens also in dances.
The most important festivity is the Holy Week, with its processions in the holy Monday and in the holy Friday.
To these parties we have to add two festivities that are done in places far away form Cusco, La virgen del Carmen in Paucarttambo and Qoylloritti, near of the town of Ocongate. Both are very original and beauties just like to the Cusco ones. For more information about Cusco festivities, please click here.
Inti Raymi
The “Inti Raymi” or Sun party; was the biggest festivity and the most important one, it was very spectacular and magnificent, that was made in the times of the empire of the Tahuantinsuyo, which the religion was based in worshiping the Sun.
Coylluriti
The fest starts in the day of “La Santisima Trinidad” when more than 10,000 followers go up the mountain. The temperature is -4ºC in the trek all of the followers are accompanied by a band, fireworks and the symbolic market of Alacitas.
Huanca
Paucartambo
During the day the groups of dancers go around the whole town, everything turns colorful and very musical, the people that came to watch all of this become entangle with all the bands and mixing themselves between the community into a magic celebration.
Semana Santa
Holy week is commemoration that is celebrated in the entire catholic world in memory of the resurrection and death of Christ. In Cusco, this celebration is associated with the Lord of the Tremors, protector of the city.
Corpus Cristi
Fifteen saints and virgins from the different districts come together in the Cathedral to salute the body of Christ, which is kept in a fabulous box made out of solid gold that weighs 26 kilos and 1.20 meters high.
Santuranticuy
Santuranticuy, that means “sale of saints” is a market where many artist come to sell their product, like many different statues to make the holidays more vibrant for Christmas, they sale the birth of Christ “nacimientos”.
Señor de los Temblores
Since 1650 when, according to the believers, a statue of the “Cristo de la buena Suerte” stopped an earthquake that was shaking the city of Cusco, the locals now worship the statue of the “Taitacha Temblors”.
