Peru Holidays: when, where and what it is
There are approximately 3,000 Peru vacation and festivals celebrated each year. Peru celebrates the holiday known as Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Easter, Christmas and New Year, but most of the celebrations are a saint. Most of these saints are a combination of Catholic religious and Andean traditions.The typical work week in Peru for a period of six days, which is probably one of the reasons why there are so many holidays. Many Peruvians get the day off on holiday, called the holiday, which is usually spent drinking one of the best beers Peru: Cristal, Cusqueña pilsen.Most or Peruvians love to drink. Will treat personal celebrations and events with the greatest fervor of national holidays. Drinks are passed around birthdays, family reunions and friend, christenings, sporting events, weddings, baby showers, and even at funerals! It is very common around the holidays to find Peru, accompanied not only by the drink, but the traditional and modern dances. When planning a vacation to Peru that Peru may want to include in your vacation itinerary. There Peru holidays and festivals throughout the year, with June and July in Cuzco is the most popular among tourists. JanuaryOf during New Year is celebrated in Peru, especially in what is one of those holidays that Peru offers a great opportunity to drink. The festival begins December 31 with rounds of beer and great food. On the stroke of midnight and there is a champagne toast, accompanied by hugs and goodwill. Twelve grapes are eaten by each person, one for each month of the year, with a secret desire. Then the fireworks start and the beer begins again in January for most 1st.FebruaryFor eighteen days Puno celebrates the Feast of the Virgen de la Candelaria. Hundreds of groups of musicians and dancers who accompany large quantities of food and fireworks on February 2 when a procession carrying the Virgin through the image of the city. The dance of demons has dancers wore masks devil make offerings to Pachamama, the earth goddess. Farewell to the dancers remain in the cemetery to pay tribute to the dead.Carnival is a national holiday is celebrated throughout the month of February. This is when people get wet, really wet. Arm people with squirt guns, water balloons and buckets of water in order to get as many people as possible wet. In most places it is illegal to celebrate carnival in the week because people are going to work complain about how the government soaked. Cajamarca is particularly excited about the carnival, organizing various activities for Peru during the two weeks of vacation February.Lunahuana hosts the International Festival of Adventure Sports. People around the world come to see and participate in kayaking, rock climbing wall, paragliding and other adventure sports or outdoor. The change of dates of the festival, but it is always held in February.March - March or April AprilIn Peru holiday around Easter, or Easter, which usually begins on the Thursday before Easter Sunday and continues through of Passover. Traditionally, alcohol is rejected during Holy Week, except for wine, meat and should not be eaten except for fish. Shops not to sell alcohol in those four days, but many Peruvians still find ways to drink, especially on Saturday and Easter Sunday. There are Easter processions in most towns in the country from the Plaza de Armas or Plaza de Armas. Ayacucho houses the famous Holy Week celebrations which begin on Friday before Palm Sunday. In Ayacucho it is traditionally believed that Christ died during the week until Easter Sunday, therefore there is no sin in time.Cuzco celebrating the Lord of the Earthquakes on Easter Monday, which combines Christian and Andean traditions . The procession is to pay tribute to Taitacha tremors, since it is thought that an oil painting of Christ was an earthquake in the year 1650. Mayon on the May 1 Labor Day (Labor Day) is celebrated nationwide to take the day off work and drink. 2-4 from Puno's Day Crafts Fair Alarcitas Santa Cruz. At this time hundreds of vendors gather to sell thousands of items by hand, as alpaca wool sweaters, jewelry, paintings, carpets, wooden crafts and dozens of imaginative elements of Peru and Bolivia. JuneThis months when it is really starting to pick Peru holidays. Corpus Christi is a national holiday, which has basically been taken over by Cuzco. Hundreds of people crowd around the Plaza de Armas to see the processions including several processions of saints and the Virgin accompanied by dancers in different costumes. Inti Raymi is held on the Inca Sun God on June 24. Start early in the day Koricancha (Temple of the Sun) and the square of the city of Cuzco, the celebration then moves to the Sacsayhuaman Inca structure at about noon. Thousands of people gather to see the recreation of an ancient Inca celebration of dance and worship God in the Sun are two flames sacrificed.JulyIn Paucartambo City, just a few hours from Cuzco, La Virgen del Carmen is celebrated during five days, days with their primary July 16. Traditional dances, costumes and a tribute to the dead have been observed. July 28 to 29 marks Peru's Independence Day that calls for more drinking and fireworks throughout the country. The large water fountain in the Plaza de Armas de Lima is filled by the City with 2000 liters of alcoholic beverage Pisco for the whole world to enjoy free.Cuzco is especially crowded during most of June and July to celebrate. There are several holidays in Cusco Peru with processions, artisans display their crafts, street vendors sell a wide variety of food and bands do live performances. During these times, Cuzco so many people who may be difficult to walk a couple of the seventeenth century blocks.AugustIn a resident of Lima called Isabel Flores de Oliva earned a reputation for caring for the sick and shun sin. Those in search of a miracle to visit her shrine in the center of Lima. His feast Day of St. Rose of Lima, is celebrated on August 30 throughout the country, especially in Santa Rosa de Quives in the department of Lima. SeptemberFrom the 22nd to the 25th Juliaca celebrates Our Lady of Mercy in honor of the patron saint of the village in which the fairs, dances and events are organized by the popular held.Trujillo International Spring Festival on the 4th week September. Once again, we drink, and dance performances, but this time there are visits by American and European beauty queens. Bullfighting and the Peruvian Stepping Horse competitions also held.October
On October 8, 1879 a naval battle was fought between Chile and Peru. This National Day is remembered as the Naval Battle of Angamos. The 18-28 El Señor de los Milagros (The Lord of Miracles), the most important part of the October holiday in Peru. This is a great procession in honor of a slave of Angola, who drew the image of a black Christ in Pachacamilla, near Lima. Although there have been several attempts to eliminate it, the image remained stubbornly on the wall. Tens of thousands of people participating in the procession every year. Believers, take two tons of debris that had paint and twenty-four hours walk from the Church of the Nazarene, through the center of Lima, and finally to the Church of the mark in Barrios Altos. Bullfighting season begins in October to commemorate the Lord of Miracles. La Noche de las Brujas, or Halloween, is not celebrated on October 31. Some attention is given to trick or treating for children. NovemberAll Saints is celebrated on the first, with the following All Saints Day in the second. Peruvians can go to visit the mass graves in memory of the dead, especially loved ones. Puno, the folkloric center of Peru, Peru has many holidays. Founder is held the 4th and 5th days called Puno. There are military parades, drinking and dancing. A procession of masked dancers celebrate legend of the Incas, where Manco Capac, the first king of Cuzco, and his sister and wife Mama Occlo emerged the lake Titicaca.DecemberThe Feast of the Immaculate Conception on 8 is held by two of the things Most Peruvians love - great food and great beer. Christmas celebrations begin on June 24, when the alcohol starts. At midnight the official party starts, sometimes gifts were exchanged, but there will always be a round of champagne.
