






Qoricancha:
Located in the western part of Cusco where now is located the church of Santo Domingo is among Ahuacpinta Street.
Streets leading to Qoricancha Av Sun, Calle Loreto, Calle San Agustin.
The Qoricancha was the most important temple was built Tahuantinsuyo in the city of Cusco during the Imperial period in the history of the Incas. The Qoricancha, "enclosure of gold," Temple of the Sun, is a beautiful sacred place that the Inca Pachacutec ordered built after his victory over the Chancas 1438. Before that the Incas worshiped the sun in a small temple called Inti Cancha. The festival of Inti Raymi starts in Qoricancha from the Inca Semicircular Tower begins the ceremony.
Sacsayhuaman:
Located north of the Plaza de Armas and the city of Cusco, about 2 km. It has an area of 3,000 hectares.
The translation of the Castilian SACSAYHUAMAN this is Quechua Sated Hawk. The area is Sacsayhuaman corresponds to the head of the sacred animal, and one of the translations have this word is precisely Head Puma. Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, the ninth Inca, redesigned the city and gave shape lying Puma (puma is a sacred animal).
At Sacsayhuaman is made on 24 June at the Winter Solstice, the festival of Inti Raymi, where students staged Sciences College Inca ritual of worship or Inti the Sun God. One of the rocks that form part of Sacsayhuaman is 9 m high and 5 m wide. Another of the rocks that form part of the complex has an approximate weight of 128 tons.
Qenqo:
It is located on the hill called Socorro, 4 km northeast of the city of Cusco and one kilometer of Sacsayhuaman. Apparently this is a place of cult of water. We found several rock carvings among which stands a large monolith that it is believed was used for ritual worship of water, but there are those who say that it was a great sculpture carved and was subsequently destroyed by the extirpators of idolatry.
The word means maze Qenqo twisted. The name translates as zigzag, Qenqo found small carved channels that served to drive the beer or the blood of the sacrifices of the flames, there is also the underground chamber, the Intihuatana. Two Qenqo: the Great, who is at the foot of the road that goes from Pisac Sacsayhuaman up, and Chico, which is 350 meters west of the former, on the hillside.
Puca Pucara
It is located 7 km from the city of Cusco, Puca Pucara.
Puca Pucara a military construction. This strength is composed of large walls, terraces and stairs and was part of the defensive and Cusco including Inca Empire in general is connected with Tambomachay. Puca Pucara is named in Quechua "Red Fortress" because of the red rocks that acquire the walls at twilight. Puca Pucara is another example of military architecture also worked as an administrative center, and invites us to walk its sidewalks, superimposed terraces, stairways and passages along which characters from the Inca Empire.
The City of Cusco is the main destination of Peru turísco with the biggest range of tourism and travel in Peru
Tambomachay or Tampumachay:
Tambomachay, which translates as: resting place is near the city of Cusco, due to their presumed that this archaeological site was intended for the worship of water, and that the head of the Inca empire could rest.
Tambomachay is characterized by a rock wall worked. Where to find water channels and represents the duality also called the Inca bath. It has large trapezoidal niches, which symbolically represent a means of communication with the underworld.






There were several reasons that led to the Inca civilization to make the sacrifices and offerings to the Sun. One was the Inca, as the Cuzco nobility, were considered to the natural children of the Sun and should correspond ... » read more »
If something catches the attention in Cusco, are their contrasts. When one is in the downtown walking along its devious and mysterious valleys, or comfortably seated in the square is hard to imagine the majestic mountain neighbors could harbor ... » read more »
Offer: Cusco, Machu Picchu & Sacred Valley for $349.00
Spend 4 days unforgettable in Cusco and ... » read more »
One of the World Wonders is Machu Picchu, many tourists are fascinated by the stories of his houses and want to spend the night in the foothills of the mountains surrounding the town of Machu Picchu Pueblo and along ... » read more »
Within this package you may know two of the most important cities of Peru, where the mixture of Lima mordenidad interacts with his side republishing. The other city comes to be the ancient capital of the Incas, in which ... » read more »
A trip full of excitement and adventure takes this route. Cusco, capital of the Inca empire. When one is in the center of the city, walking through its narrow, mysterious streets or sitting in the square, we see that ... » read more »
An exciting tour of four days, where you can visit the wonderful city dwellers as Sacsayhuaman, Q'enqo, Pukapukara and Tambomachay, you also know the wonders of Pisac and the Sacred Valley as one of the last Inca cities as ... » read more »
Cusco is a place of great historical events Incas, presents her most intimate places to visit such as Sacsayhuaman, where the Inca fought Cahuide foreigners who wanted to enter this recent religious Ollantaytambo also be able to know the ... » read more »
Spectacular and distant, lonely and forgotten, Choquequirao (3.085 m) operates on top of an almost impregnable mountain of the province of La Convención, Cusco, so that made for more than 40 years in the last bastion of resistance the ... » read more »
Cusco is a magnificent city where many of our visitors are amazed and very identified with our culture: the Inca Trail, you will live an unforgettable adventure on this tour, suitable for people who love adventure, the road is ... » read more »
A trip full of tradition, and experiential found on this route which you become very identified with our culture of Peru: Puno, the main town of the border live in southern Peru, located on the shores of Lake Titicaca ... » read more »
Located in the department of Cusco, Salkantay (6,271 m) is the culmination of a trekking circuit that combines a majestic setting of great natural beauty with the appeal of the most famous pre-Hispanic ruins of the world: Machu Picchu ... » read more »
Nine days of the best of our Country, where each day you will know the secrets that have these four cities such as Lima, Cusco, Puno and Arequipa. It begins with the beautiful arrival in Lima where you can ... » read more »
This tour begins in the capital of Peru, where you will be greeted and transferred to your hotel, then your second day you will know the beautiful island of Paracas where the natural and cultural mix to delight you ... » read more »