Peru holidays and traditional festivals  – Festival Tours

Peru is home to many andean cultures and each one knows how to take back the streets from the cars, close a town or city and have huge festivals. Dancing, parades, music, gastronomical, costumes, floats, masks and lots of beer. As varied as Peru’ and its cultures are so are its festivals.

All festivals in Peru are local but yearly when larger cities invite all the neighboring pueblos to join their celebration it is a riot of color and days of celebration. Indigenous Andean traditions, Catholic religious beliefs and the villages patron saint influence each separate andean culture. Check our Traditional and Popular Calendar of Events to know when and where the popular festivals are held each month and each year in Peru.