THE INCAS' SACRED VALLEY

To one hour on tour from the Cusco's city the river's paradisiacal valley finds Urubamba or the famous Valle Sagrado of the Incas.
In order to go over it, there are several possibilities, the best-suiteddest is using the asphalted road Cusco Pisac Calca - Yucay Urubamba Chinchero Cusco, that it comprises a journey brought nearer of 140 Km.

In the Incas' time, the Valle Sagrado was the Incas' agricultural pantry, for in its delicious lands to the present time the corn of better quality of the world, to have the biggest and nutritious grains is grown.

Your geography is dominated by the summits of the Mountain Range of the Vilcanota, platforms and tourist attractions of first level. Also for his peculiar conformation it is ideal for the sports of adventure ( boating, bicycle of mountain, free flight or long walks ).

Pisac:

Once 33 Km. was located of the Cusco, this picturesque city is famous for her craftsmanship and her Sunday market to the one that the Varayoq or the different communities' mayors to listen to mass, dresses with their better dresses are present at and carrying the rod that symbolizes his command.
The arrogant stony remains that Písac treasures, among themselves the splendid Intiwatana, are located at the taller part of the Valle Sagrado of the Incas, presenting andenerías's grand system, flights of stairs and monolithic covers, ashlars polished of quadrangular form. From the town he can agree to the archeological set for 5 Km.'s pedestrian path or for a road made firm of 10 Km.

Calca:

To 18 Písac's Km.. Huch'uy Qosqo's remains are their main attraction, located at a plain from which a very beautiful panorama is had. In Calca Tambomachay's termomedicinales also find restrooms.

Yucay:

To 19 Km. of Calca, of climate and landscape delicious, with reason the Inca chose her like resting place right after the arduous work. Have important Inca remains, at the plaza, walls and vaulted niches bear a resemblance to the ones belonging to Chinchero and Qolqanpata. The Inca Sayri Tupac, when he did the peace with the Spanish established his reign here.

Urubamba:

The Vilcanota's Pearl, placed 3 km of Yucay, it is a seaside resort of leisure and rest, with beautiful campestral areas.

Ollantaytambo:

Of Urubamba the deviation toward Ollantaytambo, with 21 Km. departs from asphalted clue. The typical town rises up in the north extreme of the valley. He was nominee that way in honor to the famous Cacique Ollanta for your romance with the Inca Pachakuteq's daughter, Kusi Qoyllur.
One of her zones better preserved extends itself north of the Plaza Hanan Huacaypata, shaped for 15 apples of big houses raised on stone walls tilled. In the vast archeological set placed at the hill that the town towers above, buildings like the Temple of the sun, the Real Living Room or Mañaracay, the Incawatana and the Princess's Restrooms stand out. Highlight the six enormous stony blocks perfectly joined, to the fact that the enigmatic been tiresome stones constituted between sink hundred of big rocks in rectangular form, tilled and extracted of a stone pit of the place and abandoned on the way over.

Chinchero:

Between the city of the Cusco and Urubamba's Province, Anta, with her giant-sized agricultural and cattle pampa finds herself. The asphalted road leads to the native town of Chinchero, that locates to 28 Km., from the capital city cusqueña. In Chinchero the remains of real Tupac Inca Yupanqui's hacienda keep in good condition, have a beautiful colonial temple constructed on Inca foundations.

His main charm resides in the Sunday market, once originally the exchange of products between the joint owners of land of the valley and of the tall parts was dedicated to. It is a craft and textile center par excellence, since the products that the villagers offer are elaborated to the ancestral style.

Maras:

Child populated to 40 Km. of the Cusco for the road that leads to of the Cusco Urubamba, going by Elk. Your attraction, in addition to the colonial Church, they are the person who sells salts of Maras located close to the town that constitutes the main economic activity of the place and. Your exploitation goes back to the pre-Columbian epochs. The spectacle that the person who sells salts of Maras offer, that is simply, wonderful and indescribable.

Moray:

To 7 Maras's Km., could have agreed to this space through a made firm road. You are famous for the sort of amphitheater formed by four circular platforms. According to the hypotheses, the aforementioned space was reserved to agricultural investigations and experimentation from cultivations to different altitudes. The andenerías are constructed on retaining walls, refilled with fertile soil, utilizándose compound mechanisms of irrigation.