1. Right: Irrigated terraces at Machu Picchu, near Cuzco

2. Aerial view of Cuzco with its city square

3. The Incas bequeathed to modern Cuzco a beautiful and unique style of stone architecture.

4. The pre-Columbian indigenous empire, centered in the northern Andean Altiplanos and headquartered at Cuzco, was the_____civilization

5. 29 The temple of the Sun at Cuzco appeared a veritable gold-mine to the impatient conquerors.

6. A bridge across the Apurímac River, west of Cuzco, spanned a distance of 45 metres.

7. 27 But my spirits in Cuzco this second sojourn in the city had been mercurial to say the least.

8. Peruvian woman with her baby, the sacred valley, cuzco - Aymaran stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images.

9. Starting from Cuzco, the Incas built a system of rock-based roads to link the most distant points of the empire.

10. Cuzco got its first convent, Santa Clara, in 1558, within a generation of Spanish conquest, and two more Convents, Santa Catalina and Santa Teresa, in the seventeenth century.

11. Colonial Habits analyzes the roles that Convents played in Cuzco, Peru--and by extension, in Latin America in general--from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century

12. Our Peruvian guide explained that the first Inca, Manco Capac, is said to have founded the city of Cuzco on a spot indicated by the sun-god.