Easter in Ayacucho is considered the most moving and beautiful religious festival in Peru. The entire population of the city gets involved in a week of processions, religious fervor and raucous street parties, and thousands flock to Ayacucho from around the country.<\/p>\n
It all starts on the Friday before Palm Sunday, with the unveiling of the image of La Dolorosa. Two processions mark Palm Sunday itself.<\/p>\n
A horde of mules and llamas, laden with dried flowers, leads a crowd of orchestras on two circuits of the plaza. The flowers are then burned in an intense religious ceremony.<\/p>\n
At 4 o\u2019clock the church of Santa Teresa puts on a procession marking the start of the Passion, with Christ entering Jerusalem on a white mule, surrounded by the apostles.<\/p>\n
On Friday night the plaza hosts a symbolic meeting between images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, each on a throne, is too much for many onlookers, who burst into tears. All lights in Ayacucho are turned off for the candlelight vigil through town, marking the death of Jesus.<\/p>\n
The procession starts the church of Santo Domingo, and a crowd of weeping followers, dressed in black, walks streets blanketed in flower petals Saturday is a day of celebration, with a bull released every half hour to rampage through town surrounded by screaming children.<\/p>\n
Everyone dances late into the night in the Plaza de Armas, drinking chicha and aguardiente, the local firewater. Easter Sunday starts before dawn, with a procession of the Resurrected Christ, a statue on a blazing white pyramid, surrounded by thousands of candles, ringing bells and fireworks.<\/p>\n
The festival ends with a full-scale running of the bulls, cock-fights and a final round of parties, before thousands of visitors return to Lima, and life in Ayacucho returns to normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3494,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-3464","videos","type-videos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos\/3464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/videos"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}