Customs
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Comadres Day Opens with Satyrical Dolls on Posts the City
Two Thursday’s before the main celebration of Carnival, during this rainy season, we honor first the compadres, the co-godfathers. On…
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Cholitas in Typical Dress Please Tourists in Cusco
Every day there are Cholitas (women in traditional dress) from Cuzco who come to the Plaza de Armas, the main…
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Cuzco Celebrates its Compadres Today
Throughout Cusco, compadres have taken the time today to call each other and send greetings. The markets and many streets…
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Procession, Dance, Food, and Music Throbbed in San Sebastian Yesterday
San Sebastian following him way (Walter Coraza Morveli) Yesterday, January 20th, was not a day like any other. Yesterday Cusco’s…
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The Wind Makes Your Head Hurt and Twists your Face
In the Peruvian Andes, from ancient time to today, our various gods, such as the sun, water, air, fire, lightning,…
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The Cábalas People Used to Bring Good Fortune for 2016
To say good bye to the old year and to start the new year people in Cusco prepare different activities…
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Gifts to Ring out the Old and Ring in the New
Wines for Sale on the Street In Cusco, New Year’s Eve is commonly lived in the streets. People buy gifts…
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Twelve Grapes and Twelve Wishes at Midnight
This last day of the year will be celebrated in thousands of Peruvian homes. The clock will strike twelve midnight…
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Yellow Brings Hope and Changes All
Christmas is gone and now we celebrate New Years in the round of celebrations that makes our years pop with…
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This Year’s Santurantikuy Market
Restoring a Jesus Child in Santurantikuy (Walter Coraza Morveli) Every year in the city of Cusco in the days before…
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