Knowing about Cusco is an amazing experience. Cusco is well known by its seats, fountain, churches, museums and houses that keep a part of history alive. The city itself is one of the great treasures from Peru; the area is full of millenary culture inherited from the Indian Quechuas, most of whom have maintained the same life style for hundreds of years.
In Cusco, customs and activities developed by natives and thousands of loved visitors are contrasted. Be attracted to the endless magnetism by the navel of the World, Cusco.
Cusco and its imposing architectural structures such as Machu Picchu, Saqsaywaman, Pisac, Ollantaytambo, Chincheros, Tipon, Pikillacta, Moray, Choquequirao are the living expression of The Great Inca culture that had lived in the Empire of Tawantinsuyu with its capital, Cusco. At that time; men, with great wisdom and exquisite architecture technique, quarried and built stone in order to build cities, shrines, forts, terraces, palaces and mysterious ways that have not been destroyed by time. Otherwise, science could not explain how they’ve been built.
Machu Picchu very well-known as “Wonder of the World”, is the main Inca citadel which was built in the remote mountains from the subtropical forest, site in the Andean valleys of the Vilcabamba Cordillera, Cusco. The citadel is surrounded by high hills and deep canyons. Its enormous constructions of stone are placed on houses, palaces, seats, streets, perrons, terraces such as the Intihuatana or SOLAR CLOCK, where the Inca dwellers get accessed to by the Intipunku or “door of the sun”. Upon the city, the enigmatic mountain of WAYNA PICCHU or “Young Mountain” is located, defying itself to be climbed by its difficult and risky ways, surrounded all around by deep abysses. Climbing up and arriving on top of the mountain are ways of receiving powerful energy. Although, there are people who do not dare to climb it up.
Otherwise, there are some vestiges of another time named like “PRE-INKA era. The “Archeological Place of Raqchi”, for example, shows signals of the great temple erected in order to the venerate “God Wiracocha or God Sun”, it is surrounded by side streets and constructions made of rock placed in circular forms that mostly had been agricultural farms. The tracks of nature are indelible by time, the great columns of stone and mud demonstrate to incredible works of engineering and architecture from the Pre-Inca era, which is why The Peruvian State is actually reconstructing and protecting them.
From another colonial time, marvels are still erected such as the Cathedral, the Temple of Q’orikancha (Temple of the Sun), museums, temples and churches. Despite the passage of time, they cause pleasant impression and great admiration. Traditions from each town are expressed in dances, crafts, music, gastronomy, clothing, painting and customs that make so much difference in each place.
Knowing about Cusco is an amazing experience. Cusco is well known by its seats, fountain, churches, museums and houses that keep a part of history alive. The city itself is one of the great treasures from Peru; the area is full of millenary culture inherited from the Indian Quechuas, most of whom have maintained the same life style for hundreds of years.
Otherwise, there are some vestiges of another time named like “PRE-INKA era. The “Archeological Place of Raqchi”, for example, shows signals of the great temple erected in order to the venerate