Machu Picchu – the lost city of the Incas , Peru
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Machu Picchu is the most famous symbol of the Inca Empire. Built around the year 1450, but abandoned a hundred years later, when the Spanish conquered the Inca Empire. The site is overlooked by the international community, but not by the local community. The ruins of Machu Picchu, rediscovered in ...