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Peru celebrates some 3,000 festivals a year.
Most of them are held in homage to a patron saint and are part
of the Christian calendar adopted in colonial times, although
they have blended with the magical beliefs of ancient forms of
worship.
These religious festivals occur alongside pagan celebrations
dating back to ancestral myths in native communities in the
jungle, as well as dozens of festivals created over the
following centuries. Peru's festivals form a radiant rainbow,
whose colors blend with sounds, textures and a vigorous
theatrical concept aimed at reinventing history and producing a
celebratory synthesis of Man and the Earth goddess, the
Pachamama.
