WHAT IS HAPPENING IN CUSCO

 

 

INTI RAYMI (24 - JUNE)

Inti Raymi.- The party of the sun begins in QORICANCHA, temple of the sun. First, the Inca goes to the Main Square for the escenificación then they go toward the citadel of SAQSAYWAMAN where they celebrate the main ceremony in the plains of this fortress.
Every June 24 is the celebration of the Sun, in other words the beginning of the New Year of the sun. Inti Raymi ...More Info

 

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VIRGIN PARTY OF CARMEN (16 DE JULY)

Paucartambo

is located to 109 kilometers of the city of Cusco, it is a typical and beautiful adobe city and tile, it is 2,830 m.s.n.m, it is famous for the festivity of Carmen's Virgin for the temple of Paucartambo, and its beautiful bridge Carlos III, jewel of the colonial built architecture on the river Mapacho, for the king's disposition Carlos III of Spain in the year 1,775, it is built of lime and song, it presents an ogival arch for further resistance, its construction was carried out in dry deviating the river, this work lasted 5 years and he/she gave birth to new Paucartambo of Spanish right lines. ...More Info