Discover peru’s iconic machu picchu in our travel guide. Discover unesco-listed inca citadel, trekking routes, best viewpoints, entry tips and local insights. High in the mountains, large and impressive blocks of stone with no mortar between them, make one of the most important religious, political and cultural centers of the inca empire: It's no wonder machu picchu is peru's most-visited site.
Understanding the Context
Dating to the mid-1400s, it's a marvel of mortar-free limestone architecture perched on a high plateau deep in the amazonian jungle. Machu picchu[b] is a 15th-century inca citadel located in the eastern cordillera of southern peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). Get facts, photos, and travel tips for the works of machu picchu, a world heritage site in peru, from national geographic.
