Trujillo Spring Festival

The Trujillo Spring Festival is a festival and cultural event that takes place in the Peruvian city of Trujillo, between the end of September and beginning of October each year. This spring festival is considered one of the most representative of Trujillo city and honors its nickname of City of the everlasting spring. This festival is also one of the largest in the country and attracts the attendance of thousands of tourists from around the planet. The main attraction of this festival is a traditional Corsican or spring parade, involving mainly beauty queens of Lions clubs across the continent; in the parade there's a competition in the decoration about spring allegory and to be honored with the award called the gold lion. It is organized by the Lions Club of Trujillo.

History The first Trujillo spring festival was held in 1950, and since that time has been held each year with the presence of many visitors from all around the world. The organization is in charge of the Lions Club of Trujillo. The International Spring Festival was formalized by Supreme Decree No. 15 of May 31, 1961 and by Act of Congress No. 15621 of September 28, 1965 which Trujillo was appointed with the title of "Capital of Spring" for the first government of Fernando Belaunde Terry. In recent editions of the festival artistic presentations are made in various parts of the city. By the 61st International Spring Festival, through regional ordinance on September 30, 2011, in the province of Trujillo was declared a holiday.

Characters of the festival Queens Guaripolas Musician bands Dance groups Allegoric cars

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Peruvian paso in spring During Trujillo spring festival in September and October there is a Peruvian Paso contest. Trujillo is known and considered as the Cradle of the typical Peruvian Paso HorseTourist Climate Guide - Perú, Page 115 http://www.senamhi.gob.pe/?p=0702 as well as the Capital of Culture of PeruFiscalía de la Nación, Ministerio Público – Fiscalía de la Nación: Información del distrito judicial La Libertad . Consultado el 15 de abril de 2012. so as the Capital of the Marinera dance and as the city of the everlasting spring.

Queens of Trujillo Spring festival N° Queen of festival Year1Lilli Clarke Cabada 1951 2 Lucila Grijalba Yturri 1952 3 Janeth Barriga Bringas 1954 4 Teresa Pinillos Ganoza19565 Rocío de la Riva Rossi 1958 6 Victoria Pinillos Monteverde 1959 7 Cecilia Manucci Vega 1961 8 Daisi Ganoza Birrel 1967 9 María Antonieta De Orbegoso Alvarado 1968 10 Mónica Ponce de León 1969 11 Ana María Hoyle Montalva 1971 12 Hortencia Rey Ganoza 1973 13 Yela Nestorovic Razzeto 1974 14 Sarita Bickel Vargas 1975 15 Jeanete Sánchez Ferrer Barriga 1976 16 Lía Iturri Cano 1977 17 Patricia Casuso Cubas 1981 18 María del Carmen Ganoza Delfín 1983 19 Ana Cecilia Morillas Abad 1988 20 Catherine Deheza Vásquez 1999 21 María Florencia de Orbegoso Piedra 1997 22 Lorena Mantilla 2010 23 Estrella Delgado Parker Vanini 2012

Trujillo Spring Festival

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