International Spring Festival
Trujillo (La Libertad)

The festival of spring is celebrated all over Peru, with especially colorful variants in the jungle. Trujillo, capital of the department of La Libertad, has forged a particular reputation for holding the festival of greatest splendor. It is intimately linked to the marinera norteña.

The festival features various tournaments demonstrating the regional variations of this dance. During the weeklong festival, streets and homes fill with decorations; floats are paraded through the city, and troupes of school children dance through the streets, led by the beauty queen of the spring pageant.