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Festivals
and Rituals in Peru
La Vendimia, Peruvian Wine
Festival
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Location :Ica
Date : March (2nd week)
This festival is a celebration of the abundance of grapes
and wine in the region of Ica (a four-hour drive south of
Lima), where persevering efforts in local vineyards have spread
greenery across vast tracts of once bone-dry desert.
The Wine Festival (Festival de la Vendimia) involves fairs,
competitions, processions of floats, musical festivals and
parties where guests dance the Afro-Peruvian festejo.
One of the major attractions of the event is the Queen of
the Wine Festival beauty pageant. Accompanied by her hand-maidens,
the beauty queen treads grapes in a vat in the time-honored
tradition to extract the juice that will eventually be fermented.
Apart from the delicious local sweets known as tejas, made
from pecans or candied fruits, filled with caramel and covered
with sugar icing, those attending the event can try pisco,
the aromatic and tasty grape brandy that originated in this
part of southern Peru four centuries ago.
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