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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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Fireworks Fill the Sky at Midnight Despite Bans
Christmas Fireworks in the Plaza de Armas, Cusco (Walter Coraza Morveli) Christmas is here. It is time to celebrate. This…
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Cuzco’s Many Manger Scenes Fascinate
Just before Christmas, the people of Cuzco put together nacimientos. The word means “births” and is what in English are…
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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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