Many national and international tourists travel around Peru in Easter Week, in order to enjoy the many colorful destinations that celebrate Easter. Most of them head to Ayacucho, since this city features the most spectacular Easter celebration in Latin America.
The colorful celebration of Easter Week features the passion of Christ over a path of beautiful flower carpets. It is an environment of popular festivities, fireworks, and commercial fairs that culminates with bullfighting and cockfighting events. It begins before Palm Sunday and ends on Easter Sunday with the celebration of Christ’s resurrection.
The gorgeous city of Ayacucho is one of the most distinguished colonial urban centers of the continent. It is an architecture jewel of baroque, renaissance, and mestizo (mixed race) styles that were built since Francisco Pizarro founded the city in 1540. It is perhaps the colonial city with more churches built within its limits by the Spaniards: thirty-three churches with their own art, character, and history, which all are at walking distance from each other.
In the outskirts of Ayacucho, tourists can visit the archaeological sites of Wari, the first Andean empire (500-1100 AD), and Vilcashuaman, once a management center of the Incas.
http://www.adonde.com/turismo/ayacucho-semana-santa.php
http://www.rpp.com.pe/2010-03-27-telefonica-auspicia-la-celebracion-de-semana-santa-en-ayacucho-noticia_253235.html
Sunday, April 11, 2010
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