HISTORY OF CUSCO

Cusco was considered the City of the Sun by the ancient Incas and the center of their worship. Here the house of the chosen of the south and the high priest clergy and the clan of the dead emperors stood. In this place large mass ceremonies and festivities such as the Inti Raymi were developed and the Sun Festival which is celebrated in the winter solstice.

The Incas believed that Cuzco was founded by Manco Capac and his sister and wife Mama Ocllo, who arrived at this place from a revelation of the sun god, Inti Raymi. Thus, the city was inhabited 3,000 years before the arrival of the Spaniards.

The original plane of Cusco has a form of a delineated puma, where the Haucaypata central square would be the chest of the puma, and the animal's head in the fortress of Sacsayhuaman.

Then in 1534, Cusco was refounded by Francisco Pizarro, who remained in the central square Plaza de Armas. The town soon became an important cultural and commercial center because it was the route between Lima and Buenos Aires.

Various battles between the Inca aristocracy and Spanish were fought to try to retake the city. However, they failed and the last uprising ended with the execution of Tupac Amaru.

Cusco declared independence in 1821, where the Department of Cusco was created. In 1011 the ruins of Macchu Picchu were explored.

It is considered the Tourist Capital of Peru.