Cusco Small Group City Tour - Half Day

Cusco City Tour Attractions

• Tambomachay - This was an Inca sanctuary dedicated to the cult of water, a place reserved for Inca
  Royalty consisting of a group of walls that are united by stairs, there are springs that cascade to a pool through several channels.  The waterfalls in these ruins form part of a terrace to the second wall where the drainage cascades to the first and forms a small pool. 

• Puca Pucara - (Quechua for red fortress).  This is an Inca archaeological site located again on the peak of a hill and is thought to be a military position and an administrative centre.  Due to its proximity to Tambomachay, it is believed to have had a relationship with its defense, as well as the control of the route to Calca.

• Qenko - A sanctuary dedicated to the adoration of animals which consists of ruins formed by a rocky site with stairs in a zigzag, and a main building similar to a circular amphitheatre where 19 window sills are located as a way of seats.

• Sacsayhuamán - We then visit one of the most important Inca sites in South America the enormous
  Fortress of Sacsayhuamán.  Its Quechua name means "satisfied falcon", for it was the falcon that guarded the capital of the empire.  Its construction took over seven decades and required the work of 20,000 men
  approximately, both for the foundations and hewn stone works, the transportation of materials, carving and stones setting, Cusco was designed in the shape of a lying puma, Sacsayhuamán would be its head, and Coricancha (or Sun Temple) would correspond to the feline's genitalia. 

• Cusco Cathedral - which is one of the finest Colonial Cathedrals in the Americas.  Building started in 1560 and was declared completed in 1664. The design is constituted by a Latin - Cross base, the facade has a Renaissance style, very ornamental, and it contains the best manifestations of colonial goldsmith and wood carving, as well as a valuable collection of canvases from the Escuela Cusqueña (Academy of Cusco). There are two auxiliary chapels on its both sides: Capilla del Triunfo and Jesus, Maria y Jose.