All Saints' Day (Día de Todos los Santos)
2025-11-01 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Lima)
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.
