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Religious holidays in Peru

 
 

Religious holidays

Inti Raymi in Sacsayhuaman Inti Raymi in SacsayhuamanThe Inti Raymi, the Festival of the Sun, was the most important festival of the Inca Empire before Spanish colonisation © PromPeru

In Peru, over a thousand popular festivals are celebrated each year. Most of them are organised in honour of a patron saint and fall within the Christian calendar. Other pagan celebrations are added to these religious festivals. In every case, traditional festivals are a confluence point where the sacred and the profane are integrated into one single event of vitality and elation.

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