Cuzco: Outlasting the conquest; Spain conquered the Inca Empire in the 1530s, and after 470 years, you'd expect the old culture to have vanished. But in Cuzco, Peru, the former Inca capital, it survives in everything from magnificent stone walls to the food on family tables.(TRAVEL)

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | March 9, 2003| | Copyright

Byline: Catherine Watson; Staff Writer

The streets of Cuzco climb up and up, steeper and higher than a breathless tourist can bear - than I could, anyway, at least at first.

Cradled in the Andes, the city that was the capital of the Inca Empire lies about 10,000 feet above sea level. I walked slowly until I got acclimated. Then I walked slowly because there was so much to see.

Cuzco's streets are human-scaled canyons, narrow and cobbled, flanked on both sides by ancient walls. The story of the Spanish Conquest is in those walls, and no place in ...

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