City Tour Cusco 1/2 day

City Tour archaeological capital of South America known as the oldest living city in the Americas Cusco. Cusco was the capital of the powerful and iconic Inca Empire or Tahuantinsuyo, it is a beautiful city in the surrounding houses archaeological remains of great importance which should stop visiting them is also not impressive gateway to Machu Picchu.

Type: Traditional
PERIOD: daily
TIME: 2:00 pm 6:30 pm

CUSCO CITY TOUR DESCRIPTION:

Places to Visit in the City Tour Cusco:

Koricancha: Originally named Inti Kancha (‘Temple of the Sun “) is an Inca temple on which was built the Convent of Santo Domingo. He was one of the most revered and respected temples in the city of Cusco, Peru, after having appreciated this important congress had to.

Sacsayhuaman: One of the most significant archaeological legacies of Cusco because of its huge building, composed of enormous blocks of stone. It is said that this construction hard over 50 years and more than 20,000 men were used to build it.

Qenqo: It was an amphitheater that served to perform ceremonies to honor their idols and embalmed their dead. This shrine is located on what today is called the Socorro hill and covers an area exceeding 3,500 square meters.

Pucapucara: is a way to Tambomachay archaeological complex, part of the tours in Cusco. Their duties and the reason for the construction are still unknown to archaeologists, however, the traditional reports indicate that when the Inca was preparing to visit the baths of Tambomachay, the formidable retinue of soldiers, dancers and others, it was left in Pucapucara quarter and inn (collective accommodation food stores).

Tambomachay: This is an interesting complex, to the thousands of tourists who visit it usually spend no more than 15 minutes. But viewed closely, it is notable for its profound meaning, the complex paraphernalia ready for the veneration of a spring, for the study and thorough knowledge of the environment, not only for aesthetic maturity with which it is integrated into the landscape and spiritual simplicity that transmits the sound of water, but by the technological inventiveness that dialogues with the bowels of the earth. A work of this level denotes the mole philia of the Inca society, which is clearly expressed in the sobriety of its architecture.