The Embassies of the Republics of Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru celebrate next Saturday, July 5 from 10 am in the Plaza de Galicia of the Parque de El Retiro in Madrid the Inti Raymi 2025 (Fiesta del Sol en Kichwa).
It is a millenary celebration of the Andean peoples of South America, which marks the beginning of the winter solstice at this point in the world and a new agricultural cycle. It is a holiday of high spirituality in which the sun and the ‘Pachamama’ (mother earth) are thanked for crops and fertility.
It will concentrate 300 dancers from the three countries, who will participate in the ritual ceremony of thanks to Inti and Pachamama, a space to regenerate energies and start a new year.
The festival, which has been celebrated in Spain for more than 25 years, has its origin in the Inca Empire, from where it spread to the rest of the indigenous communities of the Andean countries (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina), ethnic groups that consider the Inti Raymi the beginning of the Andean New Year.
