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Machu Picchu Inca city the holy city of the Incas
  
Machu Picchu
The Holy City of the Incas
The Seven New Wonders of the World
World Heritage Site
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu
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Machu Picchu: The Lost City of the Incas - Archaeological Site
In July 1911, an American scientific expedition led by Hiram Bingham arrived at the Urubamba river canyon, a warm and humid region of large vegetation. The majesty of a landscape combining distant glaciers and gigantic ravines that poured their waters into the quiet river amazed the expeditioners. Bingham was obsessed with discovering Tampu-Tocco, the mythical city of the first Incas reported by some chronicles. On July 24, after a difficult ascent to the mountain known by the place’s inhabitants as Machu Picchu (2.350 m.a.s.l.), Bingham discovered among the vegetation an extraordinary compound of ruins. The explorer thought he had found the lost capital of the Incas, without imagining that instead of solving a mystery he was unearthing another one that would last throughout the twentieth century.
