Monastery
Santa Catalina Monastery: a walled city within a city, painted blue and closed to the world for nearly 400 years
Ad Arequipa, in Perù, il Monastero di Santa Caterina da Siena fu fondato da doña María de Guzmán,…
Region
Peru
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Tradition
Scissors dance
A visceral Andean performance where two dancers compete in turns, executing acrobatic steps while accompanied by violin and…
Zone
Sillustani
On a wind-swept peninsula above Lake Umayo in the Peruvian altiplano, the Colla people raised cylindrical funerary towers…
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Tambo Colorado
The best-preserved Inca coastal palace in Peru — and nearly unique in the Inca world for retaining its…
Tradition
Taquile textile art
On a high island in Lake Titicaca, Quechua weavers create textiles using traditional techniques that encode cultural identity…
Area
Vilcashuamán
An Inca administrative center at 3,490 meters in the Andes, Vilcashuamán preserves the sacred Ushnu pyramid and temple,…
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Wari (Huari)
The highland capital of the first Andean empire — a city of 30,000–100,000 people that built roads, provincial…
Zone
Wiñay Wayna — Forever Young on the Inca Trail
On the last day of the Classic Inca Trail, approximately 4 km before the Sun Gate, Wiñay Wayna…
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