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MAIN ATTRACTIVE OF THE CAPITAL
The Seat of Arms. Well-known like Huacaypata, that means "weeping" or "lamentation". It refers the tradition that was drawn up by the founder Manco Cápac like symbolic center of the Empire. Here Túpac Amaru II, its wife Micaela Bastidas and her children were executed, to rise against the Spanish oppression.

Strength of Sacsayhuamán. To few meters of the center, it presents/displays immense walls conformed by monumental stones distributed in form of zigzag in three platforms that have an average of 360 ms of length. Stones of up to 9 ms of length and 5 ms of wide exist.

Tambomachay. Known like the "baths the Inca", through their perrons crystalline waterfalls are appraised and it affirms that here it surrendered cultured to the water.

Red strength of Puca Pucara. Fortification formed by underground platforms, perrons, passages, towers, hornacinas and platforms. Amphitheatre of Kencco. Old incaico stone portable altar also constructed. There are passages, channels and perrons with engravings that represent puma sacred.

District of San Blas. To few blocks of the Seat of Arms, this typical district, lodges the factories of the most important families of craftsmen of the Cusco, like the Mendívil, Olave and Mérida. In the church of the place has been being the famous púlpito, beautifully carved in wood of a single piece for almost 400 years.

Temple of Korikancha. The Temple of the Sun was constructed during the government of the Pachacútec Inca, on this temple the Spaniards erected the church of Santo Domingo. The recent discoveries give an idea of the importance that it had for the incaico religious cult.

Other churches and convents. Between most important they appear the Cathedral, San Francisco, Santo Domingo, Santa Catherine, San Pedro, Santa Clara, the Company, San Cristóbal and the Favor. Here the famous safekeeping, constructed in 1720 keeps, whose weight is of 22 kilos and has inlaid 1805 diamonds with other 615 precious stones, like rubies, topazes and emeralds.

Typical large houses: They emphasize the House of the Four Busts, the House of the Marquesses of San Juan de Buena Vista and Rocafuerte, the Family House where it was born the Garcilaso Inca of the Fertile valley and the Palace of the Admiral.

OTHER ATTRACTIVENESS OF THE DEPARTMENT
Machu Picchu. Most important of all by its world-wide repercussion, the eighth wonder of the world is considered and demonstrates to the wisdom of the culture Inca, who managed to build one ciudadela of perfectly fitted gigantic stones in a place difficult.

Until now the ability and strength call the attention that they had to transfer those stony masses from distant places, since there are indications of no quarries in many kilometers to the round one.

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