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January
6 - Festival of
Ollantaytambo, in Urubamba.
Every night Magic with the processions, the bands of musicians
and the dancers. May.- Festival of Qoyllority Traditional
and solemn pilgrimage Andean-Catholic festivity to tops snowed,
procession and blessing, folk dances and bands of music, artificial
fires, symbolic market of Alacitas, festivity that is carried
out at more than 4000 m. s. n. m.
In Ollantaytambo, you get a good look at the Inca's best-known
skill - dry masonry. It took astounding craftsmanship to fit
the huge blocks of stone together so precisely that, even
after centuries of earthquakes, a knife cannot be slipped
into the seams.
June - Festival
of the Corpus Cristi of San Jerónimo
Solemn procession of the custody and the 16 management Images
with musicians bands accompaniment and folk groups and gastronomic
specialties: Chiri uchu or Llaqway uchu. Religious festivity
considered the most beautiful one of the year. June.- Festival
of the Inti Raymi Festivity of the Sun carried out yearly
in the impressive Fortress of Sacsayhuamán, where the
reconocimento is portrayed al God Sun in a ritual. During
the staging diverse activities of worship they are carried
out and gratitude, evoking thus the traditional ceremony.
Finally when the sun is in the west, the Inca orders the retreat,
culminating thus the majestic celebration that is accompanied
for thousands of visitors. July.- Festival of Our Lady of
the Carmen Traditional presentation of 16 folk dances with
special program in each squad, extra or group. They considered
as the best folk demonstration of the region.
25 to 29 of July - Festivals
of Quillabamba
Civic Festivity carried out with an unfold of artistic, cultural
events.
8 of September - Day
of the Virgin of the nativity.
Bullfight. Horse-races of all the village. December.- Festivity
of the Santuranticuy one of the craft fairs of peru, is carried
out in the Greater Plaza of the Cusco, in whose paths the
artists spread their blankets continuing the custom of the
traditional Andean fairs. Here it can be found craft all kinds
of objects as sizes in wood, ceramics and old-fashioned.
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