The Bowen Knot ⌘: Corpus Christi's Festival Has Arrived and Sweets, Treats, and Bees Have Swarmed Cuenca, Ecuador

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Corpus Christi's Festival Has Arrived and Sweets, Treats, and Bees Have Swarmed Cuenca, Ecuador

Starting on June 4^th 2015 and running for the next 7 days in Cuenca is the annual festival of Corpus Christi. The majority of the weekly activities will take place in the center of El Centro at the Parque Calderon and then over at the Parque San Sebastian.

There are many tents set up in the Parque Calderon that offer a wide variety of homemade sweets as well as store bought goodies for sale. This celebration is a Catholic religious holiday that usually begins on the 9^th Thursday after Easter. It also revolves around the worship of the Blessed Sacrament. In addition, it also coincides with the Indigenous Celebration Inti Raymi on the June solstice.

From what we understand, the reason for all the sweets and treats is in remembrance of the Spaniards arriving in or around 1557, they would offer sweets to the Andean indigenous people to entice them to come to church.

At the end of each day, Cuenca enjoys it's favorite thing...Fireworks.

1 comment:

Christie WJune 8, 2015 at 8:07 AM
Oh my goodness! That is ridiculous! Yum.
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