Inti Raymi is the Festival's Biggest Peru

Inti Raymi Festival is Peru’s largest. The month of June is probably the most colorful month in the city of Cusco, it is full of events and activities. The most important day is 24 by the Inti Raymi festival.

Inti Raymi is the Festival’s Biggest Peru

The Inti Raymi is an Inca festival, which translated to the Spanish means the feast of the sun. It is celebrated throughout the territory of the ancient Inca empire, which included Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Argentina. But of course the biggest was realized in Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire.

The Inti Raymi was a religious ceremony which paid tribute to the sun god at the time of the winter solstice. It is said that the ceremony had legends about the origin of the Incas. It lasted nine days in which there were many dances and processions, as well as animal sacrifices to give thanks to the gods and to ensure a good harvest.

Inti Raymi in the past:
The first Inti Raymi took place in 1412, it was a tradition created by the Sapa Inca Pachacuti to celebrate the New Year Inca. The last Inti Raymi performed in the presence of an Inca was in 1535. Then the Spaniards did not allow it in an attempt to disappear the indigenous culture and all its expressions.

This ceremony was recreated for the first time in 1944, based largely on the writings of Garcilaso de la Vega, famous writer and son of a Spanish conquistador and a woman belonging to the Inca nobility. Since 1944 this theatrical representation of the religious ceremony took place in the Inca fortress of Sacsayhuaman, located on the city of Cusco. About 3km from where the original ceremony took place, the Plaza de Armas.

Inti Raymi in the present:
Today the Inti Raymi festival attracts thousands of tourists every year, both domestic and foreign. The ceremony takes place in three different scenarios in Cusco:

Qoricancha Temple, which was the most important temple at the time of the Incas. The ceremony will begin at 8:00 am, the Inca will give offerings to the gods. Sinchi (general of the Inca army) acllas (hidden women), t’aqaqrunas t’ika (women scattered flowers on the floor as the Inca advances), the pichaqkunas (men who clean the floor ) will come into play. After the ceremony, they will be guided to the Plaza de Armas.

In the Square the second act with different ceremonies developed for example the sacrifice of flame. Then they head to Sacsayhuaman for the final part of the ceremony. We went to the left and not right because we wanted to make a short walk, walked along a dirt road to the other side of the river to the next bridge, about 2 hours a leisurely walk. Throughout all saw ruins road, cutting the terraced land for construction. The day was beautiful and idyllic landscape with cows eating grass around us and the fields blooming everywhere even amid the ruins.

In Saqsayhuaman approximately 1:30 pm the third act of the Inti Raymi begin There is a big ceremony, the most important and impressive of the day. The ceremony includes the Inca, his collaborators and the Inca army, all this done in the spectacular fortress of Sacsayhuaman.

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