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CUZCO

THE SACRED VALLEY OF THE INCAS
Six o'clock in the morning in Urubamba. The sun barely begins to warm the earth, and the people start their morning without commotion. From out of the houses emanate the aroma of baking bread, which becomes embroiled in the sweet odor of eucalyptus. It smells of peacefulness. Work is just starting in the fields that overflow with tender corn. Soon, the sun will rise to its throne in the...
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CUZCO, THE CITY AND THE HISTORY
Center of the world in the Andean cosmology and principal city of the Colony, Cuzco is a city shaped by the Inca and the European worlds. Considered one of the architectural gems of the world, it constitutes an excellent example of the amalgam of cultures that forms the rich composition of our nation.

Cuzco is one of those cities where it possible to find a living past, a...
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STONE ON TOP OF STONE
Located in the Huatanay River valley, the city of Cuzco, originally named Acamama, was populated long before the arrival of the Incas. Its first inhabitants came there more than five thousand years ago and prospered as farmers and llama shepherds, circa 1000 B.C., when the Marcavalle culture ruled the lands around the Huatanay. Later, other ethnic groups flourished like the Huaru and the...
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THE FOUR SUYOS
Cuzco, considered by the Incas as the "center of the world", had a strategic location that allowed it to unite, in just a couple days journey by foot, places of such disparity as the cold, Andean highland plains and the torrid Amazonian rainforests. This vast network of roads - originally constructed out of carved rock and stone slabs - opens itself outward like the rays of the sun towards...
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