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Fiestas
The Holiness of the Market, Santurantikuy
A market thrives in Cusco’s main square today, its Plaza de Armas. It is Christmas Eve and people look for…
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Commentary
The Christ Child and Other Holy Beings Make a Home in Cusco
The Christ Child in His Manger (Walter Coraza Morveli) Cusco’s image makers, its imagineros, work over time right now. Wednesday…
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Commentary
Christmas Morning, Cuzco, 2014
Sun streams through the clouds on a tranquil Plaza de Armas, in Cuzco. Women stroll through, their Christ Child, carefully…
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Events
A Christmas Market (Santurantikuy) fills Cuzco’s Plaza Today
Thick clouds stipple the sky, heavy with moisture. From above Cuzco’s Plaza de Armas also looks to have filled with…
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Food & Drinks
Drama and the Child’s Image Thunder in Cuzco these Days
A clap of lightning, like a gash in the sky, tore the afternoon on Christmas Eve in Cusco, where the…
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At Midnight In Cuzco Light Explodes and Manuel Arrives
Midnight tonight, Cuzco will erupt in explosions of light. The fireworks celebrate peoples placing the Niño Manuel in the carefully…
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Customs
Singing Before the Christ Child, Cuzco’s Villancicos
One wonders who has not heard a Christmas carol. There are international Christmas songs sounding in Cuzco like you hear…
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Customs
Chicken, Christmas Eve, and the Change of Time
Three, two, one, the people of Cuzco count down on Christmas Eve, as if waiting for a space ship to…
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Christmas Eve Santurantikuy Market in Cuzco
Christmas Eve the Plaza de Armas, the main square, blossoms with a Christmas market. Under gray skies and sometimes rain,…
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