World Heritage Sites

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The Majestic Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian 15th-century Inca site situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru. It was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls. This historic site was declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. And in the 2007, Machu [...]