| Every
Sunday is celebrated the Sunday feast,
headed by the caciques or bosses of Ayllus
carrying their "varáyoc"
and typical suits, folkloric dance and
mass in Quechua. Every Sunday is also
carried out the "catu" that
is the indigenous fair of exchange of
agricultural products in which the exchange,
alive custom of Inca character prevails.
Every Thursday and Sunday is carried out
in the Main Square a crafts fair, outstanding
beautiful textile crafts, sweaters, ponchos,
bags, etc. and the crafts made out of
ceramic with reproductions of Inca archaeological
pieces, the queros (ceremonial glasses),
necklaces, etc. To this fair artisans
and indigenous merchants of many towns
go to be supplied and to trade their products.
Písac is located in the Sacred
Valley of the Incas, at 32 km. (20 miles)
from Cusco, 2,972 meters above sea level
(9,751 feet). |