Q'eswachaka Bridge Festival
2025-06-08 08:00 - 2025-06-14 17:00 (America/Lima)
Location: Canas Province, Cusco

Highlights:

Annual rebuilding of the last Inca grass bridge using traditional techniques

Community participation with offerings to Apus (mountain spirits)

UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage event

Qoyllur Rit’i Pilgrimage (Precursor to Corpus Christi)
2025-06-15 08:00 - 2025-06-18 17:00
Location: Sinakara Valley (Cusco), near Ocongate

Highlights:

One of Peru’s most sacred Andean festivals, blending Inca sun worship (Inti) with Catholicism.

Thousands hike to 4,800m to honor the Señor de Qoyllur Rit’i (Christ appearing as a mountain spirit).

Dancers in colorful masks (ukukus) perform rituals to bless crops.

Corpus Christi
2025-06-19 08:00 - 17:00
Location: Cusco

Highlights:

15 saints and virgins paraded from churches to Cusco Cathedral

Traditional dishes like chiriuchu (cold spicy platter)

Q’apaq Negro dance performances

Fiesta de San Juan (St. John's Festival)
2025-06-23 08:00 - 2025-06-25 17:00
Location: Amazon regions (especially Iquitos, Pucallpa, Tarapoto)

Highlights:

Celebrates the Amazonian winter solstice with water purification rituals

Traditional dances like the pandilla and humisha (tree cutting ceremony)

Feast of juanes (seasoned rice wrapped in bijao leaves)

Inti Raymi (Festival of the Sun)
2025-06-24 08:00 - 17:00
Location: Cusco (Sacsayhuamán fortress)

Highlights:

The most important Inca festival, honoring the sun god Inti

Spectacular reenactment of ancient Inca rituals with 500+ participants in traditional costumes

Includes offerings to Pachamama (Mother Earth) and ceremonial coca leaf readings

All Saints' Day (Día de Todos los Santos)
2025-11-01 00:00 - 23:59
This is a solemn and family-oriented holiday. Families gather to remember and honor their deceased loved ones. It is customary to attend mass and visit cemeteries to clean and decorate the graves with flowers, particularly orange marigolds (cempasúchil). A unique tradition is the preparation and consumption of “Lechón” (suckling pig) and “T’anta Wawa” – bread shaped like babies or children, which are given as gifts.

Feast of the Immaculate Conception
2025-12-08 00:00 - 23:59
Religious festival that includes masses and processions in honor of the Virgin Mary.

Santurantikuy Fair
2025-12-24 00:00 - 23:59
Peru’s largest folk art and traditional customs fair is held in Cusco’s Plaza de Armas. Artisans from the region exhibit and sell nativity scene figures, especially the famous “Niños Manuelitos,” as well as other handicrafts, ceramics, and paintings. It is the prelude to Christmas in Cusco.
