Ollantaytambo

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Architecture · c. 1450 · Sacred Valley, Peru · Americas

An Inca-planned town still inhabited; here Manco Inca repelled the Spanish in 1537

Ollantaytambo — Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Style: Inca Architecture — Stone fitted without mortar so tightly no blade slips in, and set into the mountainside
Century: 15th century

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