In the center south of Peru, at 2,761 masl is the city of Ayacucho, known as “City of the Churches”, for its many temples and churches and “the Patrician City” for its architecture, art and tradition. “Capital of Popular Art and Crafts of Peru”; of temperate climate, dry and solar brightness all the year, capital of the Province of Huamanga, of the department of Ayacucho.
It wants to spend the holy week the best destination is Ayacucho since it is a religious festival of original manifestation after the feast of Holy Week in Seville in Spain, for that week Ayacucho is the one that major domestic and foreign tourists welcomes, for those who have much faith this party starts on Palm Sunday and ends on Easter Sunday. Every day, there are multitudinous processions and religious manifestations accompanied by folk dances. Also of activities of fairs livestock, crafts and festivals. The activities per week are:

Domingo bouquets; the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem is made, from early on, a large number of donkeys and llamas, dressed in capes and dry brooms enter the city. All this is saved to be incinerated on Easter Sunday.

Holy Wednesday; day of the meeting where the image of the Huamanga patron is venerated. Nazarene Jesus believers wait with their candles.

Holy Thursday; Visits are made to the 33 churches in the city. It is the day of the Pilgrimage.

Holy Friday; the great procession of sepulcher takes, beginning at sunset in the church of Holy Sunday. A large glass coffin with the image of Christ, on a bed of white roses. Go through the streets followed by painful and thousands of Ayacuchan women dressed in mourning.

Holy Saturday; The Morochucos mounted on horseback appear. To make your pilgrimage to the hill Acuchimay accompanied by the people of Ayacucho.

Easter Sunday; or Easter Sunday where the town rises with the peal of the bells of the 33 churches. At dawn, the town turns to the Cathedral and they take out a giant walk with the image of the risen Christ. Which is loaded by more than 250 men. Walks through multiple positions, marking the end of the week.