Cusco, Peru is draped beautifully, though awkwardly, over a hillside, about halfway to heaven. But at any time of year, the site provides a breathtaking introduction to the scale and intricacy of Inca masonry....The Spanish-built Plaza de Armas remains one of the most magnificent city squares in the Americas. Besides the handsome (Cathedral of Santo Domingo) cathedral, and colonnades topped by galleries, in the south-east corner you can see the exquisite baroque façade of a Jesuit church (more) built on the site of an Inca palace.Yet the Spanish left untouched much that their predecessors created, as you discover when you explore the cobbled streets of this thriving city. Many of the Inca walls remain intact, including one with an implausible 12-sided stone.
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