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Inca Road Ollantaytambo
The Inca Road is one of the most extraordinary feats of engineering in the world. By the 16th Century it had helped transform a tiny kingdom into the largest empire in the Western hemisphere.
But ironically, it was the Inca Road that hastened the demise of its creators.
When the Spanish reached the Pacific coast in 1532 the empire was weakened by internal fighting and smallpox. And the same road that had given the Inca unprecedented access to every part of their kingdom now did the same for the conquistadors.
Ollantaytambo is known to be the last Inca stronghold before the fall.
Inca Road Ollantaytambo
The Inca Road is one of the most extraordinary feats of engineering in the world. By the 16th Century it had helped transform a tiny kingdom into the largest empire in the Western hemisphere.
But ironically, it was the Inca Road that hastened the demise of its creators.
When the Spanish reached the Pacific coast in 1532 the empire was weakened by internal fighting and smallpox. And the same road that had given the Inca unprecedented access to every part of their kingdom now did the same for the conquistadors.
Ollantaytambo is known to be the last Inca stronghold before the fall.