Virgen de Chapi
Chapi (Arequipa) - May 1

Every year, thousands of pilgrims cross the desert from the city of Arequipa to the sanctuary of Chapi to worship the image of the Virgin of Purification, today known as the Virgen de Chapi.

Señor de Muruhuay
Acobamba (Junin) - May 3

Left to their fate by officials of the vice-regency, those ill with smallpox were allegedly healed by an image of Christ that took shape on a stone slab at the food of Mount Shalacoto (2,959 m.a.s.l.), and has remained there ever since.

Festival of the Crosses
Lima, Apurimac, Ayacucho, Junin, Ica, Cusco - May 3

The members of each community who decorate their Crosses and prepare them for the procession to neighboring churches organize this festival, which is widespread in the highlands. The festival often features folk music shows involving "danzantes de tijeras" (scissors dancers). In ancient times, the danzaq or scissors dancers would perform their daring feats on top of the church bell towers.

Qoyllur Rit'i
Quispicanchis (Cusco) - 1st week of May

Each year the people of the district of Ocongate (Quispicanchis) perform a ritual whose external aspect appears to be the image of Christ, but whose real objective is to bring Man closer to Nature. The ritual, associated with the fertility of the land and the worship of Apus, the spirits of the mountains, forms part of the greatest festival of native Indian nations in the hemisphere: Qoyllur Rit'i.