Au programme à Villa de Leyva (Colombie) toute l’année

Fréquenté — Year-end holidays (Colombie), vacances scolaires dans 4 des pays d’où viennent ses visiteurs

Rien de nouveau ne commence en janvier.

Intersaison — vacances scolaires dans 3 des pays d’où viennent ses visiteurs, un mois ordinaire

Rien de nouveau ne commence en février.

Pic d’affluence — Festival de Astronomia, Semana Santa

• Festival

  Festival de Astronomia

  20–22 marsSaison du ciel étoiléBondé

  Telescopes fill the enormous cobbled plaza for a long weekend in March, with talks, a guest country and a town that turns its lights down for it. The nights up here are genuinely dark. Source ↗

• Vacances

  Semana Santa

  29 mars – 5 avr.Pâques et Semaine sainteBondéRéserver tôt

  Processions round the plaza on the Thursday and Friday, and every hotel in a colonial town of five thousand taken by Bogota. The road in from Tunja crawls on the Wednesday. Source ↗

Pic d’affluence — Semana Santa, Semana Santa recess (Colombie)

• Saison

  First rainy season

  1 avr. – 31 mai · en généralMousson

  The dry valley greens up for a few weeks and the afternoon storms come over the ridge; it is the quietest stretch of the year and the guest houses discount for it.

Toujours en cours : Semana Santa (29 mars – 5 avr.)

Fréquenté — Festival Nacional de Bandas

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  Festival Nacional de Bandas

  10–25 mai · en généralFestival de musiqueBondéRéserver tôt

  Colombia's national symphonic and youth wind-band competition takes over the main square for a weekend in mid-May, with brass and percussion bands from across the country and rooms booked out by visiting families. Source ↗

Toujours en cours : First rainy season (1 avr. – 31 mai (en général))

Pic d’affluence — Founding anniversary, Villa de Leyva Jazz Festival

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  Founding anniversary

  8–14 juin · en généralFestival de musiqueBondé

  The town marks its founding on 12 June 1572, and the anniversary programme includes a national band music festival, so expect concerts and crowds in the centre. Source ↗

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  Villa de Leyva Jazz Festival

  24–29 juinFestival de musiqueBondéRéserver tôt

  Live jazz fills Plaza Mayor and the town's hotels, bars and restaurants for nearly a week, a fixture on Colombia's festival calendar since 2011 that turns the historic centre into a venue in its own right. Source ↗

Pic d’affluence — Fiestas de la Virgen del Carmen, Mid-year recess (Colombie)

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  Fiestas de la Virgen del Carmen

  12–17 juil. · en généralFête religieuseBondé

  The patron of drivers gets processions, masses, fireworks and a parade of decorated trucks and floats with a blessing of vehicles. A local fair more than a tourist event, with Bogota weekenders on top. Source ↗

Fréquenté — Festival del Viento y las Cometas

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  Festival del Viento y las Cometas

  14–17 aoûtGrand festivalBondéRéserver tôt

  The plaza has been given over to kites in the middle of August since the 1970s, because that is when the wind on this plateau is reliable. Everything in town is booked out for the weekend. Source ↗

Intersaison — vacances scolaires dans 2 des pays d’où viennent ses visiteurs, un mois ordinaire

• Festival

  Festival Villa del Cine

  20–30 sept. · en généralFestival de cinéma

  A small film festival in late September, running since 2015, with screenings and guests from a different invited country each year. Busier weekends than usual for the time of year. Source ↗

Fréquenté — October recess week (Colombie)

• Saison

  Second rainy season

  1 oct. – 30 nov. · en généralMousson

  The second and wetter of the two rainy spells, with cloud sitting on the hills and the tracks out to the fossil museums turning to mud. Cold at night at 2,100 metres.

Fréquenté — Year-end holidays (Colombie)

Rien de nouveau ne commence en novembre.

Toujours en cours : Second rainy season (1 oct. – 30 nov. (en général))

Pic d’affluence — Festival de Luces, Year-end holidays (Colombie)

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  Festival de Luces

  5–7 déc.Noël et Nouvel AnBondéRéserver tôt

  Fireworks and lit displays over the plaza for three nights at the start of December, the traditional opening of Christmas in Boyaca. The town closes the centre to cars and fills anyway. Source ↗