TOURIST CALENDAR
FESTIVITIES IN LIMA
Week of Lima's Foundation (January 18)
Activities civic - cultural to celebrate her cuatricentenaria Lima's city. art Expositions, you visit guided, passacaglias, serenades, fireworks.
Carnavales (February).
Games with water and itching powder all the February weekends, allegorical- cars privateering in Miraflores and cortamontes's stop in neighborhoods and provincial clubs.
Lunahuaná's Festivity of the grape, wine and boating (February) Lunahuaná, South of Lima ( Cañete ), is the principal wine producer of the region and ideal place in order to the sports practice of adventure. boating championships, parapente, trekking, free flight, mountain, fishing biking with string and cast net develop During the festivity.
the Vendimia's Party (march).
He programs of queens's celebrations of the wine harvest in the traditional district of Surco, with election and you visit to viticultural warehouses.
Semana Santa (march-april).
Movable Party during her as the faithful proceed to the principal colonial churches of Lima's center to reaffirm his religious faith.
I compete National of the migrant Caballo (april).
Occasion to appreciate vigorous issues and the characteristic step of the Peruvian horses in Mamacona ( Lurín ).
the migrant Caballo's Festivity Peruvian
Place: Pachacámac ( Lima )
Put a date on : April 15 - 20
The Spanish horse once was crossed with the Arab and once was brought up in a desert-like geography, that he delineated his way of walking and his format, made room for the migrant Caballo Peruano. this new race's blood was been During 300 years purifying positively to develop characteristics that have converted it in one of the more beautiful and elegant issues worldly. For his part the breeders, horse dealers and craftsmen, over the years, they have known how to depurate the single-foot's art - the paws's synchronized movements previous and posterior simultaneously -, than in turn he originated the peculiar steps and the mariner's grace.
The implements ( once was fixed for calf, saddle and garnishment ) and the horse dealer's suit Form the set's sightly part ( shirt and trouser white, straw hat, I puncture of vicuna's fiber, handkerchief, you drop and spurs ).
This tradition, that he has exported me to diverse parts worldly, is once was encouraged through the different contests point in the coast's cities I have a meal of the Peruvian saw, being the more important the Concurso Nacional of the migrant Caballo that has total success annually in the exhibition playing field of Mamacona, in Pachacámac's historic locality, located to some 30 km South of Lima.
crosses's Party
Place: He files, Apurímac, Ayacucho, Junín, Ica, Cusco
Put a date on : May 03
Herein party, very diffuse in the saw, they organize the members out of every community to adorn to his respective cross and to prepare it in order to the procession to the nearby churches.
celebration is intimately related to the gratitude willingly harvests than the peasants prehispánicos make an offer to his divinities from times.
spectacles are frequent As the party's frame folclóricos with the participation of the scissors dancers. Formerly them danzaq or scissors dancers were accomplishing his reckless steps included envelope the churches's bell towers.
Today them danzaq also they compete executing incredible you try valuable.
St. Pedro and San Pablo
Place: Chorrillos and Lurín ( He files ), San Jose ( Lambayeque )
Put a date on : June 29
It is accomplished, together with the cleaning of communal irrigation ditches, the water's true party In saw's localities. San Pedro has been chosen as employer of the fishers In the coast and it happens to him that he becomes tired out cultured in Chorrillos's creeks and Lurín, in Lima, and her of San Jose, located to 13 km North of Chiclayo. ceremony takes to end next to the river's drainage Lambayeque where - according to the legend - he unloaded from ship the founding god Naylamp. The saint, in between sahumerios, songs and prayers, to the beachsides Is led to stop to embark it you water them down in order to a good fishing year in a trip for the purpose of blessing .
Parties Patrias (28 and July 29).
The July 29 by reason of Fiestas Patrias, one comes true impressive civic stop - being politically active in the country of Mars and Te Deum in the Cathedral, with assistance of all an national authorities. Allegorical Cars and fireworks in Miraflores.
Cañete's Week (4ta of August week).
Cañete is one of the culture's bigger emplacements afroperuana, whose signs appreciates itself in these dates.
Lima's Rose-colored Saint
Place: Lima's and Quives's ( He files ), Ocopa's ( Junín ) and Arequipa's City.
Put a date on : August 30
Lima's Rose-colored Saint is the name that the century's limeña eternized himself one with XVII. he took to Oliva's Isabel Flores A great religious vocation to consagrarse I have a meal tertiary ( unmarried woman once was consecrated without religious order in particular ) and developing a pious life at the service of the sick persons. his penitences's fame to resist the sins, as well as his goodness, was been diffusing even while one is alive of the saint. His veneration spread out not only that in the Perú but also in the Philippines and the continent's another parts, for it than proclaimed it to him The Americas's and the Philippines's Patrona. His sanctuary once was located downtown of Lima is motive of congregations's permanent pilgrimage that they go after meriting a miracle, specially relating to the sick persons's health. Custom is to put in the well where Saint-like Rosa droped his belt's key of cilices, the same way that touring the hermitage than herself forged letters with good intentionses During the August 30. Rose-colored Saint is Patrona of the Policía Nacional of the Perú and her party, celebrated in solidum the country, she has an especial Quechuan emphasis in Saint-like Rosa's locality of Quives, in the region's saw Smooths over .
the Water's Party (1er October Sunday).
You work communal of canals cleanliness of water as a great celebration to the Pachamama, in San Pedro of Casta ( Sing ).
the Rosario's Virgin
Place: He files, Ancash, Apurímac, Arequipa and Cusco
Put a date on : October 04
the Rosario's Virgin is the patroness of the Dominician, order that they had in his care the brotherhood of the slaves during the cologne's epoch, that's why many times his image goes once was accompanied of an icon with the letter S once was supported for a nail ( the black slaves's symbol ).
The Perú celebrates His cult, that he goes back to 1536, himself in solidum. In Cajatambo, in Lima's saw, the first October Sunday accomplishes an agricultural fair, bulls's races, mariner's contests and a procession that it has itself I have a meal principal retinue her of The devils.
In Urcos's districts, Quispicanchis's province, thus I have a meal in battle and Checaupe, Canchis's province, both in the region Cusco, he celebrates to her with processions, fairs taurinas and convincing barbecues, than music eaten prepared inside the land, in shallow wells covered of stones boiling .
But the more important center of the celebrations of the Rosario's Virgin is the region Ancash. festivity sells off with them presence pallas itself, maids dressed with suits of broad sleeves and you crown high of flowers in the head, and the famous negritos, dancers that they take a woolen mask black and that they encourage commemoration.
Herein party gives a symbolic confrontation itself enter Moorish, clothed inhabitants with Andean suits, and Christians, clothings with Spanish suits of the Colonia. The fight finishes when the Moorish kings, after having been beaten and drunk prisoners, repent and they ask for his conversion to the Christianity. At dusk he initiates the accompanied procession of the bands Virgin of musicians back to his temple.
the lord's Month of the Miracles, October 18, 27 and 28
the lord's Procession of them Milagros.
the lord's Procession of the Miracles takes effect during the October month, whereon Lima gets dressed dark purple in order to the more spectacular and concurred feast, where habits, nougats and scapulars of the Cristo of Pachacamilla inundate the city. This procession congregate to the principal parishioners's quantity of South America that they pay reverence to the Cristo Morado, with songs and praises as the image moves along the city.
this procession's Story soars to the Colonia, when a slave brought of Angola drew the image of a Cristo dark-colored in the walls of a humble building lot of the rustic farm of Pachacamilla, close to Lima. The image remained in the wall to sorrow of than he intended to erase in several attempts, circumstances that aroused his devotion.
All the nearby edifications destroyed less the dark-colored Cristo's wall themselves In 1746 earthquake. A popular faith consolidated Because of this event than I have gone with the years stretching to arrive to be, at the present time, the more image once was venerated urban of Lima. the celebration's center is one of América's more big processions, that they sing faithful- clothings tens of thousands with dark purple habits in and they pray in going with the image. The stretcher, of two tons weighty, taken piggyback he departs in his traditional journey of the faithful of approximately 24 hours, from Them temple Nazarene, cross the zone of Lima's center until arrives to the church of The Mercy in Barrios Altos. There are plenty of For these dates one salespeople all kinds of dishes and typical sweets, as Doña Pepa's made famous Turrón. It comes true In remembrance of the lord of the Miracles, in October also, in the Plaza of Acho, the recognized fair the same name's taurina, whom the more prestigious bullfighters arrive Hispanic and América.
October / November: bulls's Season.
the same name's Taurina whom prestigious bullfighters arrive Hispanic sells off the fair herself In commemoration to the lord of the Miracles, in Acho's Plaza and of América's another countries. These traditional bulls's races are the delight of the limeños from the epoch virreinal. |
