Cusco / Urubamba Valley/Machu Picchu
Situated in the South East of Peru, near the Urubamba Valley (sacred valley) of the Andes mountain range, Cusco is a city and capital of the Cusco Region as well as the Cusco Province. Cusco is the historical capital of the Inca Empire and was declared a world heritage site in 1983 by UNESCO. With almost a million visitors per year, it is the major tourist destination of Peru. A place of interest for archaeologists and all kinds of visitors, who are really dazzled by the Inca architecture in the Cusco jungle.
The Incas gave the city the shape of a puma, an Inca deity. A great part of the city was destroyed during the war between the two Inca brothers Atahualpa and Huascar, sons of Huayna Capac. The Spanish destroyed almost everything that was left from the war, during the Conquest and the Colony.
Touristic places:
- Qollqanpata Palace – the oldest in Cusco, most likely built by the Inca founder Manco Capac.
- the Koricancha or Inca Temple of the Sun –The Dominicans built their church and convent Santo Domingo on top of it.
- The Church of San Blas
- The Jesuit Church of the Compania de Jesus
- The Cusco Cathedral
- The ruins of Sacsayhuaman
- Tambomachay – a leisure place built by the Inca Tupac Yupanqui
- Pisac –Buildings of the religious Centre of the Incas
- The Sacred Valley of the Incas
- Ollantaytambo – located at the other end of the Sacred Valley, very close to Machu Picchu
- Maras Salt pans – Exploited since ancient times prior to the Incas.
- The town of Chinchero-located between ancient Inca constructions that controlled access to the Sacred Valley. / the Inca wall with trapezoidal niches.
- Pikillacta (FleeTown) Archeological complex belonging to the Wari Culture which was there 800 AD
- Raqchi –Located in the town of SanPedro de Cacha is one of the most beautiful and impressive Inca complexes.
- The Vilcanota River that later becomes the Urubamba River flows from the highlands to Machu Picchu
Cusco / Urubamba Valley/Machu Picchu
Situated in the South East of Peru, near the Urubamba Valley (sacred valley) of the Andes mountain range, Cusco is a city and capital of the Cusco Region as well as the Cusco Province. Cusco is the historical capital of the Inca Empire and was declared a world heritage site in 1983 by UNESCO. With almost a million visitors per year, it is the major tourist destination of Peru. A place of interest for archaeologists and all kinds of visitors, who are really dazzled by the Inca architecture in the Cusco jungle. 
- Qollqanpata Palace – the oldest in Cusco, most likely built by the Inca founder Manco Capac.