Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca fortress. It is situated on a mountain ridge at an altitude of 2,430 metres (7,970 ft) in the eastern Cordillera of southern Peru. It is situated in the Machu Picchu District within the Urubamba Province, above the Sacred Valley, 80 kilometres (50 miles) north-west of Cusco. This landscape, which […]