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Cusco Travel Guide

The original Inca city, said to have been founded in the eleventh century, was sacked by Pizarro in 1535. There are still remains, however, of the palace of the Incas, the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of the Virgins of the Sun.

About Cusco

Cusco covers an area of 156 sq. miles (402.8 square Km) and is estimated to have a population of 350,000 people being a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba Valley (Sacred Valley) of the Andes. It is the capital of the Cusco Region as well as the Cusco Province.

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Montse Aucells

For women only, Montse Aucells, a Catalan designer resident in Cusco, has a small shop at Palacio 116 that features by far the most fashionable and original designs I’ve seen in town. Many shops in Cusco feature sheep’s wool or alpaca chompas, or jackets, with Andean designs (often lifted directly from old blankets and weavings).



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