Lord of Tremors – Last week of march first week of April
A festival that celebrates the merge of Peruvian and Christian religions. It honors the traditional idea that in 1650 a Christ of the Good Death stopped an earthquake that threatened to level Cusco.

Lord of

Tremors – Last week of march
first week of April

A
festival that celebrates the merge of Peruvian and Christian religions. It
honors the traditional idea that in 1650 a Christ of the Good Death stopped an
earthquake that threatened to level Cusco.

Easter

Festivity
of variable date on which the faithful visit the main colonial churches in the
centre of Lima
in order to reaffirm theirreligious faith.

Peruvian Pace Horses National
Competition (April)

An
occasion to appreciate the spirited specimens and the characteristic pace of
the Peruvian horses at Mamacona (Lurín).

Peruvian Pace Horse Festival

Place: Pachacamac (Lima)

Date: April the 15th - 20th

The
Spanish horse crossed with the Arabian, and bred in a desert geography that
outlined its gait and its format, gave place to the Peruvian Pace Horse. For
300 years the blood of this new breed begun to positively filter, until
developing the characteristics that have turned it into one of the most
beautiful and elegant specimens of the world. On the other hand, breeders,
riders (chalanes) and artisans, have known how to sift the art of ambling -
synchronised movements of the hind and forelegs in a parallel manner -
throughout the years. This gait in its turn originated the peculiar steps and
the jauntiness of the marinera dance.

The
gear - comprised by the mantle, the saddle and the linings - and the garments
of the chalan (rider) - plain white pants and shirt, straw hat, a poncho made
of vicuna fibre, scarf, boots and spurs - are part of this attractive whole.

This
tradition, which has been exported to several parts of the world, is driven
through different contests taking place in the coastal cities and in the
Peruvian Sierra as well, being the Peruvian Pace Horses National Contest the
most important one; it is realised annually at the exhibition field of
Mamacona, in the historic locality of Pachacamac, located at about 30
kilometres south of Lima.