City Tour Cusco

Itinerary

• CUSCO CATEDRAL: Pick up from your accommodation. We will start our tour in one of the most important places of colonial culture, the Cathedral, with more than 300 works belonging to the Cusqueña art school. (optional)
• INCA KORICANCHA TEMPLO: Later we will visit the main Inca temple of the city of Cusco, the Coricancha. In this place we will be able to observe and appreciate the constructions of the Inca elite. After our visit, we will go by bus to the north of Cusco, where we can appreciate the following archaeological groups:
• SACSAYHUAMAN: one of the most important Inca constructions, of megalithic stones that holds many mysteries to this day, and also one of the largest temples dedicated to different deities that was then used as a fortress in the war between the Incas and the Spanish people.
• QENQO: an enigmatic temple dedicated to the cult of the Inca gods, carved in the upper and underground rocky outcrops.
• PUKA PUKARA: Also called the red fortress. Important Inca control center with full view to the access to the Cusco valley.
• TAMBOMACHAY: Our last place to visit are the famous "Baños del Inca". This was an ancient temple of water worship, a place that was also used as a water control point.
• As an extra point we will be able to visit a factory of wools and textiles where we will learn about South American camelids known as flames and alpacas from which a very fine fiber is obtained for the manufacture of garments, here we will also learn to differentiate the different types and degrees of quality of this precious material since ancient times.
• Finally we will return to Cusco making our last stop near the main square located in the city center.