This is a perfect half-day tour that will take exploring the best of Cusco city, visiting the most beautiful and important neighborhoods, streets, plazas, temples, and archeological sites: Amaze yourself with the magnificent architecture of the Colonial buildings lying over the Inca foundations, visit the temples and palaces of the city center. To later finish, visit Saqsayhuaman, Quenqo, PukaPukara, Tambomachay.
Highlights of Cusco City Tour
- Book with Confidence and Flexibility
- Discover the hidden secret of Cusco City in a half-day tour
- Visit the Plaza de Armas where the Cathedral of Cusco is located
- Walk the famous twelve angled stone street and the Street of the Sun
- Visit the Cathedral, Koricancha, Saqsayhuaman, Quenqo, PukaPukara, Tambomachay.
- Explore Cusco like a local with our native Tour Guide.
Price per person 90.USD [payment_system_code]
To book the Cusco City Tour, you need to make an initial payment of 50.USD per person, the remaining balance can be paid online, in installments, or Cusco with any credit card at no booking fees at all.
Itinerary of Cusco City Tour
Departure every day at 1:00 pm (Can be scheduled in the morning at 9:am)
Your tour guide will pick you up from your hotel at 1.30 pm and take you to discover the main attractions and learn about the history of Cusco’s city. The first part is a walking tour stopping at the most important sites in the city, The Plaza de Armas of Cusco, The Cathedral, The 12 angled Stone street, Loreto Street, and Koricancha. The second part starts with a short drive to Sacsayhuaman’s fortress, one of the Inca Empire’s most spectacular buildings. This site is located right in the upper part of Cusco city, contains one of the biggest monolithic transported from almost 18 km away. Each year on June 24th, The Inti Raymi is celebrated here to worship the Sun.
Continue driving to Quenqo, Tambomachay, and Puca Pucara, located just outside of Cusco city. After finishing the visit, you’ll go back to Cusco city and dropped off at your hotel.
Places we visit during the Cusco City Tour.
Plaza de Armas. The center of Cusco, even before the Spanish invasion in 1533, Also known as Huacaypata, is surrounded by shops, restaurants, and most of them are built over the Inca foundations. This place is full of history as this was where the most important events that changed our history took place.
Cathedral.- Located in the heart of Cusco’s Plaza de Armas, built over an Inca Palace, and designed in the Gothic-Renaissance and Baroque styles (1559 – 1654). The Cathedral of Cusco is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Took to built over 100 years, with rocks mainly carried from Sacsayhuaman. Today is an excellent repository of Colonial art like the famous paintings is the Last Supper by Quechua artist Marcos Zapata.
12 Angles Stone Street. It is also known as Hatunrumiyoc street, where we can find the twelve-angled stone, a diorite twelve-angled rock part of a wall of the Archbishop of Cuzco’s palace. The best example of Inca architecture and advanced stonework techniques.
Loreto Street. It is also called Intikijllu (the street of the Sun), a small narrow road leaving the Plaza de Armas where we can see a true masterpiece of Inca masonry.
Koricancha (The Golden Temple).- Was the most important religious site of the whole Inca Empire, the center of the world. Its original name was Intikancha, but the Spaniard’s arrival was named Koricancha (golden temple) due to the amount of gold found inside. The Santo Domingo Church was built over this magnificent place, but today, it is still possible to see the temples’ majestic walls inside.
Sacsayhuaman.- Located just 15 minutes drive from the city of Cusco, you’ll visit the enormous zigzagging walls of limestone, towers, shrines, warehouses, and the esplanade where the “Inti Raymi” festival takes place. You’ll get the best views of Cusco city from above. Qenqo, Tambomachay, Puca Pucara are other Archeological sites that we visit as well on this tour.
Included in the Cusco City tour
- Entrance fee to all the places we visit
- Transportation (round trip)
- Professional Tour Guide
What to take for this tour
- Suncream
- Wáter
- Rain gear just in case
- Camera
Cancellation policy
You can cancel this tour for up to 48 hours, and you will get a full refund
Covid-19 measures to keep you safe during traveling
- Temperature checks for all traveler are mandatory
- Face masks required for travelers and staff in public areas
- Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff at all times
- High traffic places and equipment sanitized regularly between use
- Maximum eight people per group to reduce crowds
- Transportation and touristic sites capacity will be reduced to 50%
- Printed material such as maps or vouchers will be avoided.
- 100% online payments with no booking fees at all
- Flexible bookings during COVID – 19 outbreak
