Cosa c'è in programma a Iquique (Cile) durante l'anno

Folla al massimo — Chilean summer season, Summer holidays in Cile

• Stagione

  Chilean summer season

  1 gen – 28 febVacanze scolasticheAffollato

  Cavancha and Brava fill with Chilean and Bolivian families for the two months the schools are out, the seafront restaurants queue and the Zofri duty-free car park is full all day.

• Stagione

  Altiplanic winter inland

  1 gen – 15 mar · di solitoRischio

  Summer storms over the altiplano send flash floods down the ravines inland, cutting the roads to Mamiña, Pica and the high parks. The coast stays dry, but check before any day trip up from town. Fonte ↗

Folla al massimo — Chilean summer season, Summer holidays in Cile

In febbraio non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Chilean summer season (1 gen – 28 feb), Altiplanic winter inland (1 gen – 15 mar (di solito))

Affollato — Summer holidays in Cile, vacanze scolastiche in 2 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

• Festività

  Semana Santa

  3–5 aprPasqua e Settimana SantaAffollatoPrenota prestoChiusure

  Good Friday and Holy Saturday are public holidays, giving an autumn long weekend. Offices close, long-distance buses and domestic flights fill, and hotels in coastal, lake and desert towns see one more busy weekend after the summer. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Altiplanic winter inland (1 gen – 15 mar (di solito))

Affollato — Semana Santa

In aprile non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Semana Santa (3–5 apr)

Affollato — Glorias Navales

• Stagione

  Camanchaca grey mornings

  15 mag – 30 set · di solitoStagione della nebbia

  In the southern winter the coastal fog bank, the camanchaca, sits over the city most mornings and only burns off around midday. Beach days start late and the promenade is quiet until the sun comes through.

• Festività

  Glorias Navales

  21 magFesta nazionaleAffollato

  The city where Arturo Prat's Esmeralda went down in 1879 marks the anniversary with a parade at Plaza 21 de Mayo, a flotilla out to the Esmeralda buoy and a 21-gun salute at 12:10, the hour she sank. Fonte ↗

Affollato — Winter holidays in Cile

In giugno non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Camanchaca grey mornings (15 mag – 30 set (di solito))

Folla al massimo — Fiesta de La Tirana, Winter holidays in Cile

• Festival

  Fiesta de La Tirana

  10–20 lugFesta religiosaAffollatoPrenota presto

  A village 70 km inland takes a quarter of a million people and two hundred masked dance societies for the Virgen del Carmen on 16 July. Iquique is where they all sleep, so its beds go months ahead. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Camanchaca grey mornings (15 mag – 30 set (di solito))

Affollato — San Lorenzo de Tarapacá

• Festival

  San Lorenzo de Tarapacá

  1–11 ago · di solitoFesta religiosaAffollatoPrenota presto

  Pilgrims from Chile, Peru and Bolivia pour into a desert village about a hundred kilometres inland for the miners' saint on 10 August, with dance societies playing through the night. Iquique is the base. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Camanchaca grey mornings (15 mag – 30 set (di solito))

Folla al massimo — Fiestas Patrias, Fiestas Patrias recess in Cile

• Festività

  Fiestas Patrias

  18–19 setFesta nazionaleAffollatoChiusure

  Fondas go up behind the beach and the mining camps inland empty into town for two days of public holiday. Shops and offices shut and the road to the altiplano is busy both ways. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Camanchaca grey mornings (15 mag – 30 set (di solito))

Media stagione — un mese nella media

In ottobre non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Affollato — Fiesta de San Andres in Pica

• Festival

  Fiesta de San Andres in Pica

  28–30 novFesta religiosaAffollato

  The oasis town of Pica, a day trip inland, honours its patron saint with the uncorking of the chicha on the 28th, a 5:30 am drum-and-dynamite wake-up on the 29th, candlelit processions and religious dance troupes. Fonte ↗

Affollato — Summer holidays in Cile, vacanze scolastiche in 3 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

In dicembre non inizia nulla di nuovo.