The most popular attraction for visitors of Peru is of course Machu Picchu.Dieser sanctuary, complete of high (Sapa) Inca Pachacutec in the early century was from the view from the valley below invisible; this is one of the reasons why never discovered Spanish, during the conquest, and also why the sleep more or less in a State until 1911, when the American archaeologist about it stumbled.
Contrary to popular myth, Hiram Bingham was not the first person since the fall of the Inca Civilization 1533 to look at and walk on the grounds of the Machu Picchu.In of his own autobiography titled "lost city of the Incas" he openly admits that native farmers in life, and the cultivation of plants in the main square.
Holy Inca road of the pilgrimage
The route also called taking tourists from train to Aguas Calientes, Machu Picchu Pueblo is zig-zag Busreise.Diese Street a hair-raising Bingham's discovery built the site.
The road which was used by the Incas in the fact, which means now go two points the Inca Trail.Sie from one: 88 km or km 82 from Cuzco to the River Urubamba, 2,800 metres height.Both this route to meet segments of the Inca ruins of Patallacta (Llaqtapata); a Web site uses for religious and ceremonial functions, crop production, and housing for soldiers from the nearby hills site of Willkaraqay, around 500 BC first inhabited an old pre Inca site.
The actual beginning of this section of the Inca road at and before the Spanish conquest, was the Plaza de Armas in the middle of Cusco.Es is now a major modern road and through the small town of Chincheros and then down in the valley town of Urubamba become.
Old Royal meeting point
Machu Picchu was probably not, as some think the winter playground or Palace of Pachacutec and the Inca Royal Court. the layout of the complex archaeo astronomical studies, that there may be as old as the 5000 years or more.
Was oral tradition Machu Picchu most likely the equivalent of "Camp David", using today's United States President to meet in private, government officials and foreign Würdenträger.Es also proposes that Machu Picchu was a place, the high () Inca and his guests to the relax and receive medical and recuperative care.
The location of Machu Picchu was therefore a military secret, and his deep chasms and mountains offer excellent natural Abwehr.Die Inca bridge, an Inca rope bridge over the Urubamba river in the Pongo-de Mainique, a secret entrance, provided for the Inca army ist.Eine more Inca bridge to the West of Machu Picchu, the log bridge in a place where the 6 m (20 feet), measures, could a gap where Cliff occurs by two logs bridged save the trees removed it a 570 m (1,870 ft)-Herbst also discouraging based on the cliffs, leaving invaders.
By Brien Förster
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