Ollantaytambo is located 80 km northeast of the city of Cusco and 40 kilometers from Machu Picchu by train, in the district of Ollantaytambo, province of Urubamba, department of Cusco. At the time of the Incas called tampus to the cities - have the capacity to accommodate housing thousands of people. They were endowed with huge deposits of food, good roads and places of astronomical observation. They were also characterized by the appropriate distance that separated them from Cusco; to be located in or main route of the Incas, which facilitated the rest of the travelers to places of great importance, as in this If the Citadel of Machu Picchu. Each of these tampus or drums were identified when prefixing a name, so the dairy farm was Paucartambo Paucar and Ollanta, Ollantaytambo. The uniqueness of Ollantatambo lies mostly in its strategic location. According to some scholars and historians, the architectural complex of Ollantaytambo stage belongs to the Imperial Inca, the Inca Pachacutec between and Wayna Capac. This stage, which comprised only three generations of Inca rulers and conquerors who preceded by only 150 to 200 years. The apparent recently that existed between the design and construction of this granite citadel or fortress, many researchers casts doubt on its true origin.
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