Cusco Tours, Cusco Travel, Cusco Vacation, Cuzco Holidays

The legend says that Manco Capac and his sister - wife Mama Occlo came out of the Lake Titicaca and ordered by God Peru of founding a city where to set the rod of gold. After a long journey, the first two Inca arrived in the Valley of the River Huatanay which sank without efforts the rod of gold; they founded the city of Cuzco, the "world navel" of the Incas.

In 1438, with the arrival of power, Cuzco became the most important Andean town, capital of Tahuantinsuyo, the Inca Empire extended from Ecuador and in the North of the Argentina, Chile and Colombia. Pachacutec and the Inca who followed him will be building a beautiful form of Puma city, whose head is represented by the fortress of Sacsayhuaman, the palaces and temples, such as the Koricancha, where there were several temples dedicated to the lightning in the Rainbow, the Moon, Sun, walls covered with gold and precious stones. Cuzco was surrounded by strategically placed Inca constructions heights as Sacsayhuaman Pukapukara, Tambomachay, Qenqo, or the Sacred Valley (Pisac, Ollantaytambo) to Machu Picchu.

March 23, 1534 Francisco Pizarro leads the Spanish Cusco Foundation. The conquistadores re-use

great Inca foundations to build their own palaces and churches, such as the Cathedral and the convent of Santo Domingo, built on the Koricancha.

Today, the capital archaeological of South America is a city more than 500,000 inhabitants, total

fusion between an urban environment and pre-Columbian monuments (Sacsayhuaman, Koricancha) who served base for the construction of gems of colonial miscegenation as the Cathedral, the Church and the convent of the Merced.

It is this beautiful city and its region that we offer you to discover.