Cusco City Tour

Cusco City Tour

TOUR DETAILS:

• Pickup Location:From the hotel in Cusco
• Tour duration: 3 hours
• Minimum required: 02 passengers
• Purchase anticipation: Advance reservation
• Type of service: Group
• Availability: Every day
• Tour language: Spanish  / English

Cusco City Tour, formerly the capital of the Inca Empire, one of the most important cities of the Viceroyalty of Peru, in whose time, in the hands of the Spanish, it was adorned with churches, palaces, baroque and neoclassical squares, which is what it is today. They make it the main tourist place in Peru. Declared a World Heritage Site in 1983 by UNESCO, it is often called, due to the large number of monuments it has, the Rome of America.

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ITINERARY

09:00 am. In this City Tour Cusco service at the indicated time you will betransferred to the central square of Cusco.

First meeting point “Cathedral Basilica” the first meeting point with your corresponding guide who will accompany you until the end of the service

Qoricancha

(It was the Main and Central Temple of the entire Empire) where the
Sun God. Highlights the engineering used in the construction of this place, its
walls were covered with gold plates and contained animals made in the
precious metal in life size, also that Mummies of the
Incas and their Wives who at some point ruled these lands and the
which were embalmed, the chronicles indicate that these seemed to
were alive.

Sacsayhuaman  

(The Head of the great Puma) The city of Cusco had the shape of a Puma and the head was exactly Saqsayhuaman. It is located 3 km from the city of
Cusco impressive Temple of monumental stones and excellent
architecture, it is also known as the House of the Sun. Annually on the 24th of
June is in this place where the ancestral ritual of Inti Raymi is performed. Guard memories of the last battle between invaders and Incas.

Qenqo

(Temple of Pachamama or Mother Earth) was a ceremonial and ritual center,
There is an amphitheater where sacrifices of black flames were performed, this every
winter solstice "June 21" with the shadows cast by the stones
worked and polished we have a very well known one: "El Despertar Del Puma"
natural phenomenon that the Incas took advantage of to start the great festival of Inti Raymi.

Pucapucara

(Inca Fortress) old tambo, surveillance post that existed throughout the
Empire and along the Inka roads. In this case this dairy controlled
the exit and entry of all those who moved to or from the city
sacred.

Tambomachay

(Royal Baths of Inka and Ñusta) 7 km. From the city of Cusco center
ceremonial cult of water, its name is due to the water sources that
exist in the place, it is believed that it was the resting place of the Inka.

We will be finishing at approximately 1:30 pm.

Includes

Tourist mobility
Guide
Visit the places according to the itinerary

Does not include:

Entrance ticket to Qoricancha 6 usd
BTG (General Tourist Ticket) 35 usd