Cusco has proudly its and stone walls that evoke the majestic of the Sun’s sons, it is a plethoric city with many monuments, historic treasures, myths and legends that seems to be born every time when someone walk in its streets. Cusco in the archeological capital of America, a city opened to the entire world, it’s impressive the number of archeological places that are found in the surroundings of the old imperial city. Worship places, intihuatanas, water supplies, springs, puquios, platforms, rocks carved, roads and canals. Click in the following places for more information.
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This temple was one of the first places the Spaniards had in mind to rob, being that one could find objects made out of gold and silver that were used as offerings to their gods.
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In the times of the Incas was called “sun’s house” and it was a great religious center of great importance in the local tradition, when the Spanish arrive they thought that it was a fortress because of the position and shape.
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It was said that it was a ceremonial center and place for rituals, it has an amphitheater that has 19 windows that were used to worship, there is also maize that leads to the underground galleries.
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Pukapukara means red fortress, about this word is because the location of the group and the existence of some semi-circular environment, about the red is because the color of the land. This name was used in this century.
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The tradition knows this place as the “Bath of the Ñusta” due to the special circumstance exist two aqueducts that have clean water all year.
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