4 Local Spots in Cusco Tourists Don't Know About
4 landmarks with verified facts and stories
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.
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 Blas Neighbourhood
San Blas, Cusco
San Blas is Cusco's artisan quarter — a steep hillside neighbourhood of narrow cobblestone streets, whitewashed houses with blue doors, and the studios of the ceramic artists, painters, woodcarvers, and weavers who have made this district the creative heart of the city since the colonial period.
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.
Explore local life in Cusco
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