To see in Cuzco
Among the religious buildings, the cathedral which Marie the
Spanish Baroque architecture and the admirable work of the
stone specific to the Indians, the Church El Triunfo, the
Church of Compania built with the 18éme century on
the site of the large palate Amaru Cancha and the INCA Huayna
Capac, the Church of Merced one of oldest and more beautiful
of Peru, the temple of the sun.
In the calle Loreto rises, on the vestiges of another crowned
site of Incas, the convent of Santa catalina. It is 5 centuries
this necessary was already inhabited by cloîtrées
women (3.000 women and girls chosen for their beauty and their
birth).
The charming district of San Blas strewn with escarpées
lanes bordered of very old white houses to the blue shutters
and doors.
Withutour of Cuzco:
With 3km in the north of Cuzco draw up the imposing vestiges
of the fortress of Sacsayhuamán, witness of the genius
manufacturer of Incas. Built using blocks megalithic, one
of them makes 9m top on 5m broad (some weigh more than 15
T).
Pisac with 32km in the north of Cuzco is
the archeological site the most complete INCA after Machu
Picchu. Apart from its famous ruins, Pisac is also famous
for its Sunday market.
Chincheros with 30km of Cuzco presents a great architectural
homogeneity, and its inhabitants remain attached to the ancestral
habits. Each Sunday is held to with it an authentic very coloured
indigenous market where barter is still practised. Chincheros
has a church of the 16éme century with interesting
colonial works of art. Interesting small musé shows
the objects collected on the archaeological excavations made
close to the village.
Yucay is a small peaceful village in a beautiful
valley with the pleasant climate with 48km of Cuzco. One finds
there an INCA palate made of stones and believed bricks, decorated
with drawings.
Urubamba, village camped in a green valley
with the foot of the impressive cordillera of Urubamba.
Ollantaytambo with 72km of Cuzco is a charming
Indien village. It is a unique opportunity to see how was
organized an INCA city, because the modern houses fit in old
urban fabric without modifying the layout of it. It is also
an impressive prehispanic fortress which dominates the valley
of its temples and terraces linked between them by a complex
system of irrigation canals and découlement.
Andahuaylillas, with 39km of Cuzco is famous
for its church founded in 1580 and which was called the "Sixtine
Vault of Peru, Simple outside, it differs inside by its style
colonial baroque and its richness: gilded furnace bridges,
mural frescos, polychrome paintings and ceilings.
Note:
Cuzco is with 3.400m of altitude, which means that the nights
are cold, but that fortunately the days are sunny (especially
from April at October), it is thus advisable to pay great
attention to the sunstrokes.
