TRAVEL TO PIURA IN CULTURAL TOURISM WEEK

Every year in August, Piura Celebrates Cultural Tourism Week, which aims to raise awareness of the tourist attractions and its potential as the flora, fauna and the unmistakable kind attention of Piura inhabitant. 

From 25 to 30 August in various activities previously drawn tours, looking to give prominence to the best of music, craft and culinary expressions of Piura. A wealth of enthusiasm, joy and celebration for those days flooded the streets of this northern city warm. 

Piura is privileged by its sunny climate almost throughout the year, but both cool with its incredible beaches and in the shadow of his cotton, tamarind and carob. The oil industry and fisheries, is the synthesis of its thriving economy. 

Its cultural wealth comes from a magical and ancient past under the influence of the Vicus culture between 200 BC and 500 AD, which is fine craftsmen jewelry and ceramics; and also a strong race of warriors. 

Piura is one of the major urban centers in Peru and the first city founded by the Spaniards, under the name of San Miguel de Tangarará, the predecessor of the present city of Piura, the capital of the department of the same name. 

Today, this place is the second most populous department in the country, with a particular geography, tourism in the city is based on its resorts and beaches that are preferred by many surfers. These beaches are: Mancora, Vichayito, Organs, Colan, Lobitos and Cabo Blanco. 

In the tourist week of Piura is also conducive know colonial churches and artisan villages as Chulucanas and Catacaos; and your saw miraculous gaps where the Huaringas quackery practiced. 

Ernest Hemingway in Piura

Cabo Blanco is famous because in 1956, Ernest Hemingway, the famous writer and journalist, stayed at the Cabo Blanco Fishing Club. 

Among whiskey bottles, close friends and black marlin fishing, the Nobel Prize spent about 32 days enjoying this beautiful spa piurano, hosted by Enrique Pardo Heeren, twice president of Peru, and the promoter of this fan club for millionaires fishing at sea. (See Masks). 

"He left to fish every day in four yachts. It was very nice to everyone, spoke good Spanish and liked to talk, "was the statement that El Comercio said Pablo Cordova in 2012, the cook and bartender who attended the famous writer at that time. Unfortunately the only piurano that kept alive the memory of that illustrious visit, died in March this year, a victim of a massive cardiac arrest. He was 80 years old.