Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel situated on a mountain ridge in Peru. It is located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, Machupicchu District, above the Sacred Valley, which is 80 kilometers northwest of Cuzco. The site is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is also known as the 'Lost City of the Incas'.
Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls. Its primary buildings are the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun, and the Room of the Three Windows. Most of the outlying buildings have been reconstructed in order to give tourists a better idea of what the structures originally looked like. Machu Picchu was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983 and was named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2007.
The site was discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, a Yale historian, and explorer. It is believed that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti, who lived in Cusco. The Incas abandoned the city during the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, and it remained unknown to the outside world until Bingham's discovery. Since then, Machu Picchu has become one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, attracting millions of visitors each year.
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