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Semana Santa in Ayacucho
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As if a week wasn't enough for a party, Ayacucho's Semana Santa (
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lasts
10 days (from the Friday before Palm Sunday until Easter Sunday). The religious spectacle
is moving, with vivid re-enactments of scenes like the procession of Christ on a donkey
through streets of flowers and palm fronds. But the after-show parties are the highlight.
Fairs, feasts and spectacular pre-dawn fireworks take place on Easter Sunday after a
Saturday during which it is believed, as Christ died Friday and rose again Sunday, that no
sin can be committed.
AURORA PHOTOS /ALAMY©
