FESTIVALS AND STREET FAIRS

Anniversary Foundation of Lima
Lima founded over 400 years ago in a January 18, converting that date in the central day of feasts and celebrations.
Date in which that warm moring on Monday of 1535, the old conqueror Francisco Pizarro - natural of Extremadura, Spain -, sheathed in his formal dress, with the discovered head and sword in hand, takes possession of the city, calling it since that instant as the City of the Kings. It is since then Lima has different denominations the people adorn it with names like: "The Pearl of the Pacific", "The three times crowned village", "The city garden", etc. Nevertheless, Lima is the old capital of New Castile, piece of coast bathed by the cold water of the Pacific; some time the most important one of South America and one of the brightest of the world. Nowadays and despite the blows of the time its contrasts and paradoxes last even inside her with surpluses of all that prettiness and elegance that characterized it until does some time.

Party of the Vintage
The Party of the Vintage, is celebrated during the second week of the month of March, it possibly began in the first one steps of the crop. In the antiquity, this process was carried out by men, women and children who when stepping and stepping again the grapes, broke and they separated the husks, taking out the juice that is denominated "Must". This tradition, even at the present time, is carried out dancing and singing, it finishes when the juice of the grape is transformed in wine or in the event of the Peru in pisco.
At the moment, there is a competition of beauty in which is crowned the Queen of the Vintage who with a court of honor, she presides over these festivities. The Corso or parade of Allegorical Cars, are another of the main attractions to whose step, the beauties go throwing grape clusters to the public that whirls to see them parade.
The steps it of the grape it is ceremonially begun by the Queen of the Vintage and their court in some celebrations that last 7 days and they consist of competitions, parades of allegorical cars, pachamancas, fights of roosters, cavalcades of the famous horses in passing Peruvian, music festivals and parties where the traditional black dance prevails: the celebrate African-American Peruvian. Many of the Creole plates that there you degustan, is accompanied with the famous "cachina", kind of a "chicha", elaborated with the juice of the recently fermented grape.
This celebration, to the one that at the present time is known as International Festival of the Vintage, attracts people from all over the world; because, apart from being a tourist regional party, it also serves from mark to transactions in those that different types of wines and pisco of the best quality are marketed.
In the district of Surco (Lima), area with a great number of vineyards, also takes place this festivity type.

All Saints Day
Religious festivity taken place in the whole country. The day 01 declared as having traded national it is considered as the Day of all the Alive Saints. For tradition in the Cusco meet whole families, favorable occasion for eat the pig with tamales and still the famous baptism of bread wawa.
The day 02 considered as the Day of the Deceased Saints, reason for which people visit the cemeteries and they carry out peculiar celebrations with songs reminding their dear beings.

Mr. of the Miracles Procession
Christ of Pachamamilla, Christ Moreno or Mr. of the Miracles, travels the Limean streets in procession, every year in the month of October from 1687, bringing gets blessings of union, it thrills, fé and tradition. The devote dresses of having lived trying to emulate to the sisters nazarenas, taking detente like symbol of adhesion and devotion to the Mr. of the Miracles.
The history counts that by the middle of the XVII century a humble mulatto painted the Christ crucified in a wall cloth, inside the dunghill of Pachamilla, an area where they lived contained the black angolanos, in an absolute poverty. In 1655 November 13, at 2:45 in the afternoon a disastrous earthquake took place in Lima and The Callao, knocking down Churches, burying mansions leaving thousands of dead and damaged; being come all the walls of the brotherhood below, except the weak adobe wall in which was colored Jesus´ image, being intact the image, without anything.
Starting from then the image attracted great quantity of worshipers that scandalized to the political and religious authorities with its songs and dances semipaganos, forcing the Viceroy to order the destruction of the image. When going up a painter the stairway to erase it, began to feel tremors and chills, having to be assisted immediately to continue with their work. In a second intent again ascends but it was so much the caused impression that descends abruptly and goes away afraid of the place without culminating with the commended task.
A second man, a soldier of Balcázar, of more temperate spirit, ascended but it happened the same thing, lower quickly, explaining then that when he was in front of the image he saw that it became more beautiful and that the crown painting more green. Before the insistence of the authorities to disappear the image, people manifested her displeasure and began to protest with angry voices and threatening attitudes that they forced to retire to the cortege. The order was revoked and he remembered that in that place surrendered adoration to the powerful image.
In a second attack of the nature, October 20 - 1687 a maremoto razed with the Callao and part of Lima, demolishing the chapel that had risen in honor to Christ´s image. Being alone in foot the adobe wall with the Crucified Christ´s image. This fact makes that the Church admits and its consecrate.
A copy to the oil of the image was made and it was taken in procession by the streets of Lima imploring to the Crucified Christ so that it appeased the anger of the nature. From that time he settled down that in the days 18 and 19 of the month of October would take place the procession of the Mr. of the Miracles.
The processions that leave of the Convent of The Nazarenas move for diverse places, lasting several days, until returning to their starting point, they don´t have equally in any part of America.

Epiphany Celebration
In Peru, the Christmas season is celebrated until January 6. This date, known as the Epiphany, marks the Three Kings visit to the infant Jesus. The Epiphany has a special significance in Lima, known also as the City of Kings because it was founded during the Epiphany celebrations in 1535. Today, the holiday is celebrated in Lima with dances and processions, as well as feasting. Including the traditional Rosca de Reyes, or King´s Round, which is a circular fruit-studded bread said to resemble a crown.

Adventure Sports Festival of Lunahuaná
The Adventure Sports Festival of Lunahuaná is carries out in the valley of Lunahuaná in Cañete. The event is organized by ALDEA (Latin-American Association of Sports of Adventure), institution dedicated to the Adventure Tourism, Ecoturismo and Sports of Adventure. Pioneer in the promotion and diffusion of the adventure sports in the country with the objective of encourage the practice of these sports disciplines and to diffuse the apt tourist places for the development of said activities.
As part of the Festival will be carried out sports competences in the disciplines of: boating (Raft and Kayak), escalation in artificial rock and cycling of mountain. Besides, a Party among sportsmen, journalists and public will be carried out in general.
In the event participate noticeable sportsmen of Huaraz, Lunahuaná, Arequipa, Tarapoto, Huancayo, Cusco, Apurímac, Pozuzo, Abancay etc. In each new version, expects to include the massive aid of the public, that will enjoy the sports competences.
It fits to emphasize that Festival comes organizing since 16 years ago consecutive in the valley of Lunahuaná. This sports festival is respected like the most important traditional events of adventure sports of the year in Peru and congregates to hundreds of sportsmen and tourists.

Bullfighting of the Mister of the Miracles
The city of Lima full of caste and devotion, city of the Kings, each month from October lives the start of its bullfighting fair, that of the Mister of the Miracles, that is celebrated in the beautiful bullring of Acho. Also known as the Fair of October, is a cycle that like such exists since the year 1946 but that, nevertheless, had his incubation period months before since the columnist Mr. Manuel Solari Swayne "Zeñó Manué" enthused to the fondness to plan its races during the month in which the city celebrates its Holy Boss, the Mister of the Miracles.
From the 1947 it began to offer to the dexterous winner of the Fair of the Mister of the Miracles the prized trophy called "Scapular of Gold" (is an image carved in high and low relief in brilliant gold of 18 Carats), distinction that was instituted by the businessman and cattle raiser Fernando Graña Elizalde at the suggestion of the gentlemen Manuel Solari, Alejandro Graña, José Antonio Roca Rey, Antonio Graña and Enrique Ego Aguirre Poggi.
It is decided to offer a trophy to the better bull of the fair, and is recently that in the year of 1969 is created only for a little time the "Currency of Gold", the same one that from the following year is institutionalized like the "Silver Scapular" (is an image carved in high and low relief in the metal silver of 925), prize that to the delivers itself proprietary cattle raiser of the best bull The Fair of the Mister of the Miracles.

Season of Festivity in Chincha and The Carmen
Festival of the Virgin of the Carmen in Chincha December 27. It located 200 Kilometers south of Lima in the district of The Carmen, the festivity is carries out that the settlers organize its patroness, the Virgin of the Carmen, has a duration of three days, uniting the Christmas (December24) with the celebration to the Virgin (December 27). Is an ancient festival where flows the religious aspect with the musical Afro-Andean of Peru. It is traditional the "Dance of the Shepherdesses", that recite verses that date from the 17th century with melodies of violin and percussion of bronze little bell´s.

Festivity of San Martin of Porres
November three, is carries out the Religious festivity of San Martin of Porres. The pilgrimages and the processions of said festivity are dedicated for the faithful to San Martin of Porres.

Festivity of San Martin of Porres
November three, is carries out the Religious festivity of San Martin of Porres. The pilgrimages and the processions of said festivity are dedicated for the faithful to San Martin of Porres.

Black Summer Festival
The Black Summer Festival is celebrated yearly in the month of February, in the city of Chincha, in the region of Ica. Standing out in this festival the black culture in its entirety (gastronomy, music, culture, poetry, dances and other cultural demonstrations); besides in those days is celebrated, the Congress of Afro descendants, where themes related to the identity they are discussed and development of the black race in peru. The festival is organized for diverse chinchanas authorities and promoted by the commerce and the industry.

In the Almagro Village since their foundation in October 20, 1537, have emerged the black slaves of service in Chincha. These black of pure race originating from Africa of castes or nations newfoundland, sucumas, devils, cambundas, carabalíes, cangas, husks, huachiríes, congos, misangas, etc. They brought to Peruvian lands an own culture with religious and magic beliefs, mixing the sacred thing and it pagan through their songs, dances, dances and customs.

Constituting the first wave of black the servants of the houses estates in the sugar refineries, in the cultivation of the cotton, in the constructions, etc. In this new continent the first language was the expression congo angoleña, tambien called samaracca, subsequently - dominating in a notorious way - the language papiamento, combination of black speech in Jamaica. The cleocle appears dialect of the black ethnic group of Haiti, and the replana of peru, combination of various African languages mixed with Spanish native.

The African pure and its descendants in Chincha, they were catechized by the Dominicans and Jesuits; already as the Christians and under the hard reality of work, they imitate its ancient beliefs and they articulated it with the catholic saints, the patroness of the black arises, the Virgin of The Carmen.

The sheds of the estates was who they agglutinated them, of there the greatness of the black art germinates of Chincha, be of San José, San Regis, Larán, Guayabo, Chamorro, Hoja Redonda, Chincha Baja. In the hard work, in the fatigue, in the illness, in the solitude, arise décimas, panalivios, dances, feasts, zamba, landó, alcatraz, |inga, they are of the devils, water of snow, the cabe, the lizard, the toromata, conga, zamacueca, etc. Thus for more than four centuries the black chinchano creates for peru, shortcut of pallitas, of negritos, black creators of the standing black tenth forced, large, black artists sportsmen.

Sacred Rosa from Lima
Places where is celebrated: Lima City and Quives (Lima), Ocopa (Junín) and Arequipa.

Date: August 30

Sacred Rosa from Lima is the name with the one that made last forever a Limean of the XVII century. A great religious vocation took to Isabel Flores de Oliva to be consecrated as third (single consecrated in particular without religious order) and to develop a compassionate life to the service of the sick persons. The fame of their penances to resist the sins, as well as its kindness, was still spreading in the saint´s life. Their adoration not only spread in the Peru but also in the Filipinos and other parts of the continent, for what proclaimed it to him Employer from the America and the Filipinos. Its sanctuary located in the center of Lima is reason of a permanent pilgrimage of faithful that go in search of deserving a miracle, especially in connection with the health of the sick persons. During August 30 it is habit to mail letters with good desires to the well where Sacred Rosa allowed to fall the key of her belt of cilices, as well as to visit the hermitage that herself built. Sacred Rosa is Patron of the National Police of the Peru and her party, taken place in the whole country, she has a special Quechua emphasis in the town of Santa Rosa of Quives, in the mountain of the department of Lima.