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Cusco Travel Guide
Festivities

Top festivities in Cusco & surroundings are:

Virgen de Carmen, Paucartambo (mid-June): This highland village 4 hours from Cusco puts on one of Peru’s most spectacular festivals in mid-June, when thousands descend on the town to honor the Virgen del Carmen, patron saint of the mestizo population, with 4 days of wildly festive music, dance, and costumes. For photographers, this is one of the most visually vibrant festivals in Peru.
   
Inti Raymi (June 24): The greatest of all pre-Columbian festivals, the “Inca Festival of the Sun” celebrates winter solstice and honors the sun god with vibrant pageantry, parades, and dances, drawing thousands of visitors to the principal event at the Sacsayhuamán ruins. Note that this is Peru’s most famous and best-attended fiesta, and it in fact lasts for several days. If you plan to attend or visit Cusco during the last week in June, it’s imperative that you make travel plans many months in advance.
   
Corpus Christi (early June): A procession of saints and virgins arrives at the Cusco Catedral to “greet” the body of Christ, and an overnight vigil is followed by another procession around the Plaza de Armas.
   
Easter Week (Semana Santa, late March/early April): Colorful, reverent processions mark Easter Week; those in Cusco are among the very finest in Peru.
   
Perachapchi (January 20): in San Sebastián neighborhood on the outskirts of Cusco. Parades of musical groups take to the streets along with an extraordinary procession of barefoot indigenous peoples who carry the immense statue of Saint Sebastián, who always travels with a pair of live parrots.
   
Lord of the Earthquakes (Easter Monday, late March/early April): A 17th-century painting of Christ on the cross—said to have saved Cusco from a devastating earthquake—is paraded through the streets of the city.
   
Fiesta de la Cruz (May 2 and 3).:The Festival of the Cross, featuring folk music and dance, including “scissors dancers.”
   
Santuranticuy Fair (December 24): One of Peru’s largest arts-and-crafts fairs, held in the Plaza de Armas of Cusco, with figurines and Nativity scenes as well as ceramics, carvings, pottery, and retablos (altars) for sale.
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