Tourist Attractions
Village of Oropesa
24 km / 15 miles southwest of Cusco (30 minutes by car)
Oropesa is traditionally known as the “Land of Bread”. People maintain several homemade ovens dedicated to the baking the flavorful country bread called “chutas”.
Pikillacta
30 km / 19 miles south of Cusco (45 minutes by car)
This is a pre-Inca city which cultural height was reached between 800 A.D. and 1100 A.D. in the period corresponding to the Huari regional confederation. It constituted the doorway to the SacredCity of the Incas. It features long, straight streets and big, rectangular city blocks full of buildings. It is surrounded by walls and there are spherical buildings in the western part. The flagstone and mud mortared walls are high and their foundations taper as they rise.
Temple of Andahuaylillas
36 km / 22 miles from Cusco (1 hour by car)
Known as the Sistine Chapel of the Americas, it was built in 1580 and features a simple façade contrasted by the Baroque interior with its gilded altars, walls, paintings, and polychromatic ceilings.
Tipon Archeological Complex (3316 masl / 10879 fasl)
25 km / 16 miles southeast of Cusco (45 minutes by car) on the tarred Cusco – Puno highway, taking the turnoff near kilometer marker 20,5.
According to legends, Tipon is one of the royal gardens that Wiracocha ordered to be built. It is made up of twelve terraces flanked by perfectly polished stonewalls and enormous agricultural terraces, canals, and decorative waterfalls that, along with the native flowers of the area, offers the visitor a stunning vision. The site is composed of different sectors: Tipon itself, Intiwatana, Pukutuyuj and Pucará, Cruz Moqo, the cemetery of Pitopujio, Hatun Wayq´o, among others.
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