Festival Calendar

FESTIVAL CALENDAR

Festival	Description	Place	Dates
Surrenders of Sticks	The power in a stake	Cusco	January 1
The Visit of the Wise Men	Folkloric and religious festival	Ollantaytambo	January 6
Typical Births	Exhibitions of typical birth in churches and homes of Cusco	Cusco	Until January 6
The Chiaraje	A ritual battle	Canas	January 20
Carnivals	Party for happiness	Cusco	February and/or March
Lord. of Tremors	The brown Christ and the crimson flower	Cusco	The second part of March and the first week of April
Cruz Velacuy	Party of the crosses and Andean spirit	Cusco	May and/or June
Festival of OllantayRaymi	Staging of Ollantay drama, dances and typical dishes	Ollantaytambo	The first part of June
Qeswachaka	Inca Bridge Rebuilding Ceremony	Apurimac River (Canas)	June 11–12
Qoyllur Rit'i	The biggest indigenous pilgrimage in America	Quispicanchis	June 20-21
Inti Raymi	The Inca festival of the Sun	Cusco	June 24
Corpus Christi	The steps of the saints and the virgins	Cusco	June
Virgin of the Carmen	Mamacha Carmen	Paucartambo	The second week (15-16) of July
Corpus of Santiago	A religious festivity	Cusco	July 25
Corpus of Santa Ana	A religious festivity performed in the chapel of Santa Ana	Cusco	July 26
Corpus of San Cristobal	A religious festivity performed in the chapel of San Cristobal	Cusco	August 2
Warachikuy	Dramatisation of Warachikuy in Sacsayhuaman	Cusco	August and/or September
Corpus of Almudena	A religious festivity celebrated in the church of Almudena	Cusco	September 8
Lord of Huanca	Pilgrimages and agriculture fairs	San Salvador	September 14
Corpus of San Jeronimo	A religious festivity celebrated in the district of San Jeronimo	Cusco	September 30
Virgin of the Rosary	Taurine fairs and preparation of Pachamancas	Quispicanchis and Canchis	October 10
All the Saints' Day	Visits to cemeteries, Preparationj of the suckling pig	Cusco	November 1 - 2
Christmas in Cusco	Time of integration and artistic splendour	Cusco	December 24-25
Santuranticuy Fair	The sale of saints	Cusco	December 24

The national holidays include:

January 1st	New Year's Day
february	Carnavales
April	Holy Week
May 1st	Labor Day
June	Corpus Christi
June 24	Inti Raymi
June 29th	St. Peter and St. Paul Day
July 28th and 29th	Independence Day
August 30th	Santa Rosa de Lima
October 8th	Battle of Angamos
November 1st	All Saints´ Day
December 8th	Inmaculate Conception
December 25th	Christmas