Sacred Valley Of The Incas:
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Pisac: Picturesque town located 32 Km of
the Cusco, at the beginning of the Valle Sagrado de
los Incas. Of Great fame for their handmade market
and for their irrigation system and gastronomic observatory,
standing out the Intiwatana and the platforms.
In Pisac is very famous the fair the days Sundays
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- Calca: Located to 50
Km of the Cusco, of great attractiveness for their beautiful
landscapes where you can appreciate the imposing snowy Pitusiray
and Sawaisiray. In this county it is the archaeological complex
of Huchuy Qosqo, the thermal bathrooms - medicinal of Machacancha
and Minasmoqo.
- Yucay: This is at 68
Km of the Cusco. Is a beautiful place with a temperate climate
and of very fertile lands. In this town it is important the
Palace of the Inca Manco Sairy Túpac II. It was the
center of agricultural production of the Inca, in this area
especially toward like in the sacred valley one of the best
corns in the World takes place, (very famous the Choclo).
- Urubamba: To 78 Km of
the Cusco.You can arrive for two roads for Pisac and for Chincheros
with which there is a distance of 57 Km. Urubamba this in
the heart of the Valle Sagrado. It was a prehispanic agricultural
center, very fertile and welcoming from where it is possible
to spend the night to make diverse excursions.
- Ollantaytambo: This important archaeological
center this at a distance of 97 Km of the Cusco. Is a typical
Inca town. It was a gigantic complex lifted in the square
where it guards the entrance to the valley, military complex,
religious, agricultural, and social in time of the Tawantinsuyo.
The Spaniards called it not well this La Fortaleza de Ollantaytambo.
In this center you can appreciate their superimposed terraces
which are in finely figured stone; to be consented you have
to walk for a great quantity of perrons in stone.
Today in day we have in Ollantaytambo diverse Hotels and Restaurants
for all the likes. Many tourists come in bus from Cusco until
Ollantaytambo to take the train for Machupicchu or of return
of Machupicchu; they stay in Ollantaytambo visiting this famous
archaeological center to return to the Cusco in bus, which
is much quicker.
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Chincheros: This at 28Km of Cusco, and
to a height of 3762 msnm. Old center agricultural
Inca, is inside the county of Urubamba. This integrated
one for several ayllus or indigenous communities.
This beautiful place this surrounded by the snowy
Chicón and Wequey Willca (call commonly Puma
Sillo or Verónica), Chincheros has a colorful
and converged Sunday fair where it is practiced the
exchange, it also highlights its square with its colonial
church and its Inca wall in very good conservation
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Moray: Located to 45 Km toward Urubamba
going by Chincheros, well-known as the center of more
imposing agricultural experimentation, for their platforms
form that it goes in circles confusing it many times
with an amphitheater. |
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Machupicchu: Located to 112 Km of the Cusco.
This imposing construction was discovered to the world
in 1,911 for the American North Hiram Bingham. Built
on the mountains of Machupicchu (old mountain) skirted
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Divided in two sectors, the agricultural one and
the urban one. In the urban one we can watch the Hanan (high)
and Hurin ( lower) Machupicchu. It has constructions of religious
type, temple, flagstones, and others of military type. In
the agricultural sector we observe the typical Inca platform
where we can appreciate a part of the Inca cemetery as well
as its stone quarries. Contrary to Sacsayhuaman the lithic
material used in the construction is small. The access roads
that take us to Machupicchu are three: For train (3 at 4 hours),
in Helicopter (25 minutes) or also to opt for the Inca Road
which begins in the Km 88 of the railroad. Machupicchu is
considered as the university of the Inca idolatry, to have
been one of the most important religious centers in the empire.
Toward the South:
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Tipon: To the outskirts of Cusco toward
the South to 22 Km is the ruins of Tipon. It was an
Inca establishment that presents enclosures of use
ritual and remains of a surrounding wall of figured
stone of approx. was 20 meters high. It Impress for
their irrigation channels, where you can appreciate
the high hydraulic knowledge of the time. |
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- Oropesa: Located to
24 Km It is a traditional town to the wich many they know
it as" Tierra del Pan" due to their numerous and
old homemade ovens where a flavorful rural bread is elaborated.
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Piquillacta: To 30 Km to the south of the
Cusco is the onlooker and very extensive citadel of
the empire Wari. This construction apparently had
defensive ends and of storage, (agricultural allowances)
whose denomination in Spanish would mean city of fleas,
allusive to have small inclosure or also well-known
as Rumy Colca (stone barn). |
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Andahuaylillas: This to 39 km of the city
of the Cusco, Andean typical town. In this town one
of the singular churches is been founded in the year
of 1,580 it is San Pedro of Andahuaylillas also known
as the Capilla Sixtina of the Peru, for their impressive
interior murals that date of the XVII century, they
highlight the paints attributed to Luis de Riaño.
We can appreciate the facade of great simplicity that
hires with the expressive wealth of the Baroque art.
Don't stop to visit the Sixtina of the Peru.
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Raqchi: Located in the Km 125, archaeological
group where we can appreciate simple constructions
that would have been barracks or colcas (stores) and
an impressive construction of more than 90 meters
long and 25 of wide whose solid foundation of figured
stone and adobe walls would have been in that time
sanctuary of the God Wiracocha. The extensive layout
of this construction was part of a KallanKa used for
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- Paucartambo: Located
in the valley of the Kosñipata (in the route to the
Manu), to the opposed side of the sacred valley. Colonial
typical Andean town that it even maintain alive their customs;
important for their architectural conformation as well as
for that its the Bridge XVI Luis (colonial bridge).
Famous for their festivity to the virgin of the patron Carmen
of the place and one of the most important from the Cusco,
festivity of manners that the July 16 of every year whose
celebrations last approximately one week takes place. Many
tourists and devote they arrive until these Andean places
to celebrate the Mamacha Carmen. Near the town of Paucartambo
it is the area of Three Cruces where the natural show is presented
more you impress yourself of the exit of the Sun where it
can appreciate it in all its splendor. Don’t stop to
visit this Town and to see its imposing exit of the Sun.