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PERU | Saturday, 6 July 2013 | Views [383] | Comments [2] | View Smaller Image

A couple enjoy the day at the Plaza de Armas with their daughter during Cusco Carnival or Cusco Week, when there are daily processions in the Plaza de Armas, the central plaza in historic Cusco.

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A group of men struggle under the weight of a saints' effigy as they carry it through the streets of Cusco and around the Plaza de Armas, during the festival of Corpus Christi. They will do this all day and into the night when they will store the effegies until morning in La Catedral, a Spanish colonial cathedral, which you can see behind them. Celebrated exactly nine weeks after Easter, it is a ritual co-opted by the Spanish in the 16th Century to Catholicize the Incan people. The effigies are treated as living beings in a similar way as the Inca paraded their ancestors' mummies around that same plaza centuries before.

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Hi shirak,

We really love this photo and would like to feature it on our Facebook and Instagram pages so that other travellers can enjoy it too.

Keep up the great work!
The World Nomad team

Alicia Smith Oct 4, 2013 3:27 PM

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Hi Alicia and the World Nomad team,

Glad you enjoyed the photo! You may use the photo as long as I receive full credit in the posting of it. Please let me know when it is up on your Facebook and Instagram sites.

Thanks,
Shirak

Shirak Oct 10, 2013 5:49 AM

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