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More than 500 police to provide security to tourists and the population to contact the national holiday celebrating the department of Cusco, informed the Territorial Police Directorate X (DIRTEPOL).
Also reported that the various divisions will patrol on foot, horseback and motorcycle

“The staff are alert to any criminal act that threatens the safety of visitors, whereas Cusco is a tourist destination,” he said. The concentration of police will be mainly in the airport terminals and land in the historic center.

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CONCERT OF THE CUSCO’S QANTU ASSOCIATION

Category: Music

Location: Auditorium ICPNA

Start Date: July 9, 1910 19:30

Completion date: July 9, 1910 21:00

FLASH BACK – RACCONTO – BACK

Category: PRESENTATION

Location: Casa Cultural Tupac Inca Yupanqui

Start Date: July 9, 1910 19:30

Completion date: July 9, 1910 22:00

Mincetur  (Peru’s Trade and Tourism Ministry) has announced that a record 129,616 Peruvian tourists visited the city of Cusco – Peru in May this year.
“Tourist arrivals have showed upward trend since the beginning of the Cusco Pone campaign, with a 26% increase in March compared to February, up 12% in April from March, and a 21% growth in May over April,” Peruvian Trade and Tourism Minister Martin Perez said Thursday.

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La reapertura de la línea férrea Cusco-Machu Picchu fue aplazada, Perú Rail dice que el servicio de trenes a la famosa ruina de Machu Picchu será totalmente restaurado 01 de Julio.

La popular línea de ferrocarril de 68-millas es la única ruta terrestre a la ciudadela inca. Como todos sabemos, la línea fue dañada por las fuertes lluvias en enero, que dejó a cientos de turistas varados.
Parte del servicio ferroviario fue restaurado en marzo, aunque la mayor parte del viaje desde el Cuzco había que hacerlo en autobús.
Las ruinas incas son el principal destino turístico del Perú, con 1.500 y 2.000 turistas que visitan a diario.

Esperamos que se completen los trabajos de restauración para disfrutar de una las atracciones turísticas mas hermosas del planeta.

By Lee Klein

Francisco Pizarro

I first visited the Cathedral in Lima, Peru, in 1979, and saw the mummy of Francisco Pizarro. The mummy had been placed there back in 1891, when Peruvian officials, wanting to prominently display the “Founder of Lima,” had the body moved from the chapel in which it had lain for the previous 350 years.

But was this really Pizarro? Just prior to my visit, workers cleaning a crypt beneath the altar found two wooden boxes, one containing the bones of five people—one missing a head! The other box held a lead casket on which was inscribed in Spanish, “Here is the skull of the Marquis Don Francisco Pizarro, who discovered and won Peru and placed it under the crown of Castile.”

Francisco Pizarro died a violent death. On June 16,1541, while he was having dinner in his governor’s palace, a group of men, led by the son of his ex-partner, Diego de Almagro, broke in and stabbed him to death. As he lay dying from multiple sword wounds, he drew a cross on the ground in his own blood, kissing it, and crying “Jesus.” Continue reading