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Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu. Ekaterina Nikulshina, Ph-62. Outline. History Location Architecture Intihuana stone Concerns over tourism. History. constructed around 1450 abandoned less then 100 years later hypothesis: traditional birthplace of Inca people spiritual centre prison

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Machu Picchu

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  1. Machu Picchu EkaterinaNikulshina, Ph-62

  2. Outline • History • Location • Architecture • Intihuana stone • Concerns over tourism

  3. History • constructed around 1450 • abandoned less then 100 years later • hypothesis: • traditional birthplace of Inca people • spiritual centre • prison • estate of Pachacuti

  4. History • Hiram Bingham on July 24, 1911 • in 1923 – “Historical sanctuary” of Peru • on July 7, 2007 – one of “New wonders of the word”

  5. Location • 2,350 meters above sea level • 70 kilometers from Cusco • Inca rope bridge across the Urubamba River • sits in a saddle between two mountains • two high-altitude routes from Machu Picchu to Cusco

  6. Architecture • classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls • never used the wheel • 140 constructions • more than one hundred flights of stone steps • water fountains

  7. Architecture • the Sacred District: • the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun, the Room of the Three Windows • the Popular District • storage buildings and simple houses to live in • the District of the Priests and the Nobility • the residence of the Amautas, the zone of the Ñustas, the Monumental Mausoleum

  8. Intihuatana stone • one of the many ritual stones in South America • "The Hitching Point of the Sun" • astronomic clock • damaged in September 2000 by a 1,000-pound crane • 1980s- moved from Machu Picchu's central plaza

  9. Concerns over tourism • most visited tourist attraction of Peru • in the late 1990s - construction of a cable car to the ruins and a luxury hotel • 400,000 tourist visited Machu Picchu in 2003 • UNESCO endangered World Heritage site

  10. References • ru.wikipedia.org • www.tavelphoto.ru • www.vokrugsveta.ru

  11. Machu Picchu Ekaterina Nikulshina, Ph-62

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