Sacred Valley Of The Incas:

- 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 as well as the Tuesday and Thursday.

- 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.

- 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 state. Don't stop to visit him.

- 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.

- 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 by the river Urubamba or Vilcanota.

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:
- 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.

- 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.

- 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).

- 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.

- 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 ritual ends.
- 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.




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