Cosa c'è in programma a Cusco (Cuzco) (Perù) durante l'anno

Tranquillo — il mese tranquillo secondo la redazione, Summer / year-end holidays in Perù

• Regola

  Machu Picchu circuits and time slots

  1 gen – 31 dicPrenota presto

  Entry is a numbered circuit at a fixed hour, capped daily and sold online well ahead; Huayna Picchu and the mountain add-ons go first. There is no ticket office at the gate worth queueing at. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Andean rainy season (1 dic – 31 mar (di solito))

Affollato — Summer / year-end holidays in Perù, vacanze scolastiche in 3 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

• Chiusura

  Inca Trail closed

  1–28 feb

  The Ministry of Culture shuts the whole route for February every year for maintenance of the steps, bridges and campsites. Machu Picchu itself stays open, and the Salkantay and Lares treks run. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 gen – 31 dic), Andean rainy season (1 dic – 31 mar (di solito))

Affollato — tra un picco e l'altro, Señor de los Temblores

• Apertura

  Inca Trail reopens

  1 marStagione dei sentieri

  The trail opens again on 1 March, into the greenest and least crowded weeks of the year. The rain has not quite finished, which is the trade. Fonte ↗

• Festival

  Señor de los Temblores

  16 mar – 19 apr · di solitoPasqua e Settimana SantaAffollato

  On Holy Monday, the day that opens Holy Week, the blackened Christ is carried around the Plaza de Armas under showers of red ñucchu petals, the one procession in Cusco that is entirely for the city itself. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 gen – 31 dic), Andean rainy season (1 dic – 31 mar (di solito))

Affollato — tra un picco e l'altro, Señor de los Temblores

In aprile non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 gen – 31 dic), Señor de los Temblores (16 mar – 19 apr (di solito))

Affollato — tra un picco e l'altro, Andean dry season

• Stagione

  Andean dry season

  1 mag – 30 set · di solitoStagione della polvereAffollato

  Bright still days, hard frost at night at 3,400 metres, and dust on the trails by August. It is the reliable half of the year and everybody knows it.

• Festival

  Qoyllur Rit'i

  30 mag – 4 giuFesta religiosa

  Tens of thousands walk up to a glacier sanctuary above 4,600 metres for three days and nights of dancing in the cold, in the week before Corpus Christi. A pilgrimage rather than a spectacle, and altitude no visitor should take lightly. Fonte ↗

• Festival

  Corpus Christi

  3–11 giuFesta religiosaAffollato

  Fifteen saints and virgins are carried in from the parish churches to the cathedral square and stay for a week, and the city eats chiriuchu on the steps. It opens Cusco's month of festivals. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 gen – 31 dic)

Folla al massimo — il mese di punta secondo la redazione, Andean dry season

• Festival

  Inti Raymi

  24 giuGrande festaAffollatoPrenota presto

  The Inca festival of the sun re-enacted at Sacsayhuamán above the city on the winter solstice, in front of a paying grandstand and a hillside of everyone else. The city is full and priced for it. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 gen – 31 dic), Andean dry season (1 mag – 30 set (di solito)), Qoyllur Rit'i (30 mag – 4 giu), Corpus Christi (3–11 giu)

Folla al massimo — il mese di punta secondo la redazione, Andean dry season

• Regola

  Inca Trail permits sell out

  1 lug – 31 agoStagione dei sentieriPrenota presto

  Only 500 people a day may start the trail, guides and porters included, and the June to August dates go five or six months ahead. Machu Picchu's own timed circuits sell out in the same window. Fonte ↗

• Festività

  Fiestas Patrias

  25 lug – 2 agoFesta nazionaleAffollatoPrenota presto

  Peru's national holidays fall inside the driest, busiest weeks and put domestic travellers on top of the foreign ones. Lima-Cusco flights and Machu Picchu slots both go early. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 gen – 31 dic), Andean dry season (1 mag – 30 set (di solito))

Folla al massimo — il mese di punta secondo la redazione, Andean dry season

In agosto non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 gen – 31 dic), Andean dry season (1 mag – 30 set (di solito)), Inca Trail permits sell out (1 lug – 31 ago), Fiestas Patrias (25 lug – 2 ago)

Affollato — tra un picco e l'altro, Andean dry season

In settembre non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 gen – 31 dic), Andean dry season (1 mag – 30 set (di solito))

Affollato — tra un picco e l'altro, October break in Perù

In ottobre non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 gen – 31 dic)

Tranquillo — il mese tranquillo secondo la redazione

In novembre non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 gen – 31 dic)

Folla al massimo — il mese di punta secondo la redazione, Santurantikuy

• Stagione

  Andean rainy season

  1 dic – 31 mar · di solitoMonsoneRischio

  Heavy afternoon rain and low cloud over the ruins, with the mountains greener than at any other point and the trails close to empty. Landslides close the rail line to Machu Picchu occasionally, usually for a day or two.

• Festival

  Santurantikuy

  24 dicNatale e CapodannoAffollato

  On Christmas Eve the Plaza de Armas becomes a market of hand-carved nativity figures brought down from the villages, and it runs from dawn until the small hours. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 gen – 31 dic)