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Cusco (3400 m ü.M.) war die Hauptstadt der Ureinwohner Südamerikas, und als der erste Inka Manco Cápac die Stadt um 1200 auf Befehl des Sonnengottes gründete, nannte er sie Qusqu: "Nabel der Welt".
Cusco was the capital of the indigenous people of South America, and when the first Inca Manco Cápac founded the city around 1200 at the command of the Sun God, he called it Qusqu: "Navel of the World".
In der Liste des UNESCO-Welterbes in Amerika
Nahe der Puca Pucara Ruinen & Tambomachay.
Tambomachay ( located near Cusco ) is an archaeological site that was intended for worship of water. This place is also called Inca baths. Located 7 Km northeast of Cusco.
Cusco Cathedral is towering over the Plaza de Armas, this colonial church is the architectural focal point of Cusco.The historic town of Cusco, Peru is a designated UNESCO World Heritage site. Once the imperial city of the Inca, Cusco’s pre-Columbian urban layout was preserved when the Spanish conquistadors began building colonial structures over its framework in the 16th century. The result is a fascinating city of layered architectural styles, archaeological ruins, and varied artistic and cultural influences, set within a winding labyrinth of cobblestoned lanes.
The Imperial city of the Incas was developed as a complex urban centre with distinct religious and administrative functions which were perfectly defined, distributed and organized. The religious and government buildings were accompanied by the exclusive abodes for royal families, forming an unprecedented symbolic urban compound, which shows a stone construction technology with exceptional aesthetic and structural properties, such as the Temple of the Sun or Qoricancha, the Aqllahuasi, the Sunturcancha, the Kusicancha and a series of very finely finished buildings that shape the Inca compound as an indivisible unity of Inca urbanism. The noble city was clearly isolated from the clearly delineated areas for agricultural, artisan and industrial production as well as from the surrounding neighbourhoods. The pre-Hispanic patterns and buildings that shaped the Imperial city of the Incas are visible today. whc.unesco.org/en/list/273
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Cusco was long an important center of indigenous peoples. It was the capital of the Inca Empire (13th century-1532). Many believe that the city was planned as an effigy in the shape of a puma, a sacred animal. How Cusco was specifically built, or how its large stones were quarried and transported to the site remain undetermined. Under the Inca, the city had two sectors: the urin and hanan. Each was divided to encompass two of the four provinces, Chinchasuyu (NW), Antisuyu (NE), Kuntisuyu (SW) and Qullasuyu (SE). A road led from each of quarter to the corresponding quarter of the empire.
Each local leader was required to build a house in the city and live part of the year in Cusco, restricted to the quarter that corresponded to the quarter in which he held territory. After the rule of Pachacuti, when an Inca died, his title went to one son and his property was given to a corporation controlled by his other relatives (split inheritance). Each title holder had to build a new house and add new lands to the empire, in order to own land for his family to keep after his death.
According to Inca legend, the city was rebuilt by Sapa Inca Pachacuti, the man who transformed the Kingdom of Cuzco from a sleepy city-state into the vast empire of Tawantinsuyu. Archaeological evidence, however, points to a slower, more organic growth of the city beginning before Pachacuti. The city was constructed according to a definite plan in which two rivers were channeled around the city. Archaeologists have suggested that this city plan was replicated at other sites.
The city fell to the sphere of Huáscar during the Inca Civil War after the death of Huayna Capac in 1527. It was captured by the generals of Atahualpa in April 1532 in the Battle of Quipaipan. Nineteen months later, Spanish explorers invaded the city (see battle of Cuzco) and gained control because of their arms and horses, employing superior military technology.
Cusco, often spelled Cuzco is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region and of the Cusco Province. The city is the seventh most populous in Peru, and in 2017 it had a population of 428,450. Located on the eastern end of the Knot of Cuzco, its elevation is around 3,400 m (11,200 ft).
The city was the historic capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th century until the 16th-century Spanish conquest. In 1983, Cusco was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO with the title "City of Cuzco". It has become a major tourist destination, hosting nearly 2 million visitors a year. The Constitution of Peru designates it as the Historical Capital of Peru.
from Plaza De Armas in Cusco, Peru... quite a sunset on the surrounding hills!
view large to see the fountain in front of the cathedral in the foreground... www.flickr.com/photos/al-ien/3046061339/sizes/l/
Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f/1.5 Prominent (1950s)
Once the capital city of the Inca Empire, Cusco saw a huge transformation after the Spanish conquest. Inca temples and palaces were demolished, and their stones were used to build Catholic churches and colonial mansions. Plaza de Armas is the center of the city, surrounded by several impressive structures, including the Cathedral of Cusco and the Church of the Society of Jesus in this picture.
The houses of Cusco are built into the slopes of the mountainous city, and as gradually more people come to live here, the further up they go often then isolating them from basic amenities and utilities.
Cusco, aka Cuzco, high up in the Andes was the historical capital of the Inca Empire.
Getting closer to the raison d'être for this trip... :-)
Cusco, Peru
This is an enhancement of a Kodachrome slide originally taken in July 1969 with the Konica S2 35mm camera my parents gave me for my 21st birthday 3 years earlier. The slide was recently transferred to digital format. It was very faded and had mildew spots on it. I was able to use Photoshop to restore its color and remove most of the spots
Plaza de Armas : Ha sido el escenario de muchos acontecimientos importantes, incluyendo ejecuciones que marcaron el destino del Perú. Fue aquí donde murieron, ejecutados públicamente, entre otros: Túpac Amaru I, el último de los incas rebeldes de Vilcabamba, en 1572; el conquistador rival de Francisco Pizarro, Diego de Almagro, en 1538, al igual que su hijo, Diego de Almagro "El Mozo", en 1542; y Túpac amaru II, precursor de la independencia, en 1781. ( Tomado de la Guía Inca del Cusco).