Enjoy this slide show of photos of this year’s Semana Santa celebrations in the Peruvian highland city of Ayacucho. The pictures were taken by Marisol Chancos, operations director of Maki International.
In a verdant valley outside the provincial capital city of Huanuco lies the “village of bewitchment” Tomayquichua, the legendary birth place of one of Peru’s most famous Colonial-era women, Micaela Villegas, the “Perricholi.”
Ricardo Florez (1893-1983), one of Peru’s greatest painters of the 20th century, is at the center of an embarrassing scandal involving Peru’s Justice Ministry.
The Ministry of Culture is inaugurating an exciting exhibition tonight, featuring mummies and artifacts pinpointing the historical transition from Inca imperial rule through the Spanish Conquest.
