Cusco Food Culture
Various locations, Cusco
Cusco's food culture is one of the most distinctive in the Americas — a highland cuisine built on ingredients that have been cultivated in the Andes for thousands of years and that are only now being discovered by the international food world.
Pisac Ruins & Market
Pisac, Sacred Valley, Cusco Region
Pisac is a Sacred Valley town that combines some of the most dramatic Inca ruins in Peru with the most popular traditional market in the Cusco region.
Pisco Sour & Cusco Bar Culture
Plateros, Peru
The pisco sour is Peru's national cocktail — a frothy, citrus-sharp drink made from pisco (a grape brandy distilled in Peru and Chile), lime juice, simple syrup, egg white, and Angostura bitters that is the essential accompaniment to every evening in Cusco.
Plaza de las Nazarenas & Surrounding Streets
Plaza de las Nazarenas, Cusco
Plaza de las Nazarenas is Cusco's most elegant small square — a quiet, cobblestoned plaza one block from the Plaza de Armas that is surrounded by the finest colonial mansions in the city, now converted into boutique hotels, restaurants, and the Museo de Arte Precolombino.
San Pedro Market
Túpac Amaru, Cusco, 0801, Peru
San Pedro Market is Cusco's central market — a two-storey covered hall near the train station where vendors sell the produce, meat, juices, and prepared food that feeds the city's population and provides the most immersive food experience available in the Peruvian highlands.
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