Cusco: Private Half Day City Tour & Nearby Inca Sites

This charming half-day tour of Cusco offers us a journey through the history of this city. We will visit the Koricancha Temple, which during the Inca empire was a center of worship of the Sun and on which the Santo Domingo convent was later built as part of the evangelization process. We couldn|t take a tour of the city without passing through the Main Square and the cathedral the most important temple in the entire city. Its interior houses a wonderful collection of colonial art composed of goldsmith pieces and representative canvases of the Cusco School of Art. To appreciate the greatness of the Incas, we will visit nearby archaeological sites such as the monumental fortress of Sacsayhuaman, which with its enormous carved stone walls constitutes one of the best examples of Inca military architecture; Kenko, a ceremonial place where the Sun, Moon and stars were worshiped; and Puca Pucara, which during the empire functioned as a rest and lodging place for the Inca troops.