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La ciudad del Cusco está ubicada a 3.399 msnm, en el centro de un fértil valle bañado por las aguas de los ríos Huatanay (afluente del Vilcanota) y Tullumayo. La ciudad se levanta sobre un antiguo lecho lacustre.
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Mercato di San Pedro.
Il più grande e caratteristico di Cusco.
San Pedro market.
The largest and most characteristic of Cusco.
Também conhecida como Qosqo ou Cuzco, capital arqueológica de América, foi a cidade principal do Imperio Inca, considerada pelos mesmos como “Umbigo do Mundo”. Era o centro vital do milenário Tahuantinsuyo (Imperio dos Incas) e na atualidade é a cidade mais visitada do Perú por oferecer uma imensa riqueza arquitetônica, histórica e espiritual.
Sacsayhuamán is a walled complex high above the Inca city of Cusco (in the background below) at an altitude of 3,700 m (12,140 ft). Sacsayhuamán was originally built by the prehistoric Killke culture about 1100. They were superseded by the Inca who occupied and expanded the complex beginning about 1200. The complex probably served as a fortress. Some believe that the complex was built specifically in the shape of the head of a puma with Cusco below being its body.
The walls consist of massive blocks of stone which are so closely spaced that it is impossible even to slide a piece of paper between the stones. It is unknown how the blocks were moved and how the walls were constructed. This precision, combined with the rounded corners of the limestone blocks, the variety of their interlocking shapes, and the way the walls lean inward, is thought to have helped the ruins survive devastating earthquakes in Cusco.
The Spanish harvested much rock from the walls of the structure to build churches and monasteries in Cusco. This is why the walls are in perfect condition up to a certain height, and missing above that point.
Cusco was a centre for early spanish attempts to evangelise the local population (and get access to the Inca Gold of course). There are multiple large churches in the old town, each built by the different branches of the catholic church. This building itself houses three separate churches.
Although Catholicism is a major religion in the region, it has been blended with many of the traditional Inca traditions and beliefs and is prodly a "hybrid" religion.
This church for example houses a version of the famous Last Supper painting which features a guinea pig (the local delicacy) as the main course.