| When |
Where |
Description |
| 1 to 15 |
Amazonas |
Vigin Asunta. Solemn worship, which main day
is on August 15. Departmental Handicraft Fair Social, cultural and
recreative activities. Folk demonstrations. |
|
3 to 7 |
Lambayeque |
Motupe Holy Cross Regional Festivity. |
| 4 |
Huancavelica |
Anniversary celebration. The San Cristobal
hot-spring waters re in the surroundings. |
| 5 |
Ancash |
Feast of "Virgen de las
Nieves" - Foundation of Sihuas. |
| 5 |
Ayacucho |
"Virgen de las Nieves" Feast. With the best
folk expressions, Cora Cora celebrates its Town Patroness, stand out the "Negritos"
dance, the "Diablada ", and the "Baile de las Tijeras" (Scissors Dance). |
| 5 to 12 |
Cajamarca |
Cajamarca's Tourist Week.
Activities of tourist interest. Election and crowning of Miss Tourism.
Latin American music, folklore and Peruvian Movie Festival, Pre-Columbian
ceramic exhibitions. |
| 5 to 15 |
Loreto |
Tourist Week and Patronal Feast of the "Virgen
de las Nieves" - Yurimaguas. |
| 6 |
Junin |
Anniversary of the Glorious
Battle of Junin for Peru and America Independence, Civic-Military ceremony
at the foot of the monument in Junin Pampa. Popular fairs. |
|
11 to 17 |
Huanuco |
Huanuco Tourist Week. It coincides with the
Anniversary of Huanuco's Spanish Foundation. Great agricultural and
handicraft fair. |
| 15 |
Apurimac |
Virgin of the Assumption in
Cotabambas. The feast is celebrated with street dancers and bullfights
with the condor at the back like the "Yawar Feast". |
| 15 |
Arequipa |
Arequipa's Anniversary. The people of
Arequipa joyfully celebrates its Spanish establishment anniversary.
Artistic embassies of various Latin American countries, just as many of
Peru's town go to "White City" in order to pay homage with its magnificent
spectacle called "Festidanza" (Dance Festival), a really international
Folk Feast that enhances the celebrations. Other attractions: Typical
bullfights, handicraft fairs; allegoric cars and civic-military parade.
The festivities last all the month. |
| 15 to 31 |
San Martin |
Tarapoto Jubilee and
Tourist Week, Lamas. With great enthusiasm Tarapoto celebrates its jubilee
feast with social, sports and folk activities. It is a good opportunity
for visiting this beautiful city and enjoy its hospitality, commodities
and taste the typical food and drinks. |
| 24 to 31 |
Ayacucho |
Ayacucho Tourist Week. Tourist activities:
guided visits by the city, archeologic zone Wari-Quinua (Handicraftsmen
town). Folk expressions, social and sports events. The craftsmanship of
Ayacucho is worldwide known: silver filigree, retable, engraved mates,
huamanga-stone figures, etc. |
| 25 |
Cusco |
Warichacuy. Evocation and
giant staging of the "Wara" Incan imposing ritual, male garment that
symbols the transit of puberty to the adult age. Five thousand young
people, showing multicolored Incan clothes represent several ability
trials and physical skills. Sensational scenery at the Sacsayhuaman
esplanade. |
| 25 to 30 |
Pasco |
Oxapampa Tourist Week. Saint Rosa de Lima
celebration, Oxapampa Patroness. Popular fairs and dances. Ribbon tourney.
Tyrolese dances. Blade fighting Cock Competition. Kermesses, typical food. |
| 25 to 30 |
Tacna |
Tacna's Reincorporation
Anniversary. Intense patriotic festivity carried out with the moving
participation of Tacna's town. The main activities are: The Youth
offering, the Flag's parade and the civic-military parade. As the event
attractions: Agricultural, Industrial, and Handicraft Fairs. Folks
Festival with National and foreign groups. Theater festival. Tourist
photography exhibition. Central day: August 28th. |
| 28 to 29 |
Tacna |
Regional Contest of the Peruvian "Caballos de
Paso", Tacna. |
| 29 |
Cajamarca |
Rescue Room. The Inca
Atahualpa after captured contributes with a huge rescue (two rooms full of
silver and one room full of gold); notwithstanding this, he is executed
finishing the Inca Empire (Tahuantinsuyo 1533). |
| 29 |
Junin |
In the town of Carhuamayo, the death of the
Inca Atahualpa is staged (Tamboy drama). |
| 30 |
Ancash |
Patronal Feast of Saint
Rosa - Pallasca. Religious celebration in honor of Saint Rosa de Lima;
music and dancers band, fireworks, bullfights, Handicraft and Product
Fairs. |
| 30 |
Junin |
Celebration of the Feast of Saint Rosa of
Ocopa. |
| 30 |
Lima |
Saint Rosa of Lima.
Religious ceremonies in honor of the America and Philippines Saint
Patroness. Pilgrimage to her Quives Sanctuary. |
| Last week |
Lima |
Cañete Tourist Week. Black Art Festival.
Cañete organizes the "Ritmo and Festejo" conquest, with the election of
queens and a great Negro folklore show, that coincides with the tourist
week celebration. |
| Last week |
Piura |
National Tondero Contest.
Typical dance of Piura. Congregates a lot of couples that contend for a
beautiful trophy, a real feast of grace and northern colored. |
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