Peru

La Gastronomía Peruana es considerada como la mejor Gastronomía de América y una de las mejores del mundo. La cocina peruana esta constituida por los aportes de diversas culturas y una importante historia culinaria avalan su grandeza y variedad.

La Gastronomía Peruana llena de gran calidad, cultura y sabor ha evolucionado durante siglos hasta convertirse en todo un ícono de identidad para los peruanos.

Digna embajadora de este país, representa fielmente un pasado de gloria: desde las culturas pre incaicas, pasando por el poderoso Imperio Inca y su hegemonía sobre Sudamérica, hasta el Virreinato Peruano que mantuvo esa hegemonía de antaño y hoy sobre la actual República del Perú.

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Part 1 – Flight, Lima Historic Center, Miraflores, Nightlife, to Cuzco

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Visit of / Visite de / Besuch von / Visita de / Chiamata di
Cuzco Tambomachay Pukapukara Q’enqo Sacsahuayman
Cuzco was the capital of Inca Empire. Many believe that the city was planned to be shaped like a puma. The city had two sectors: the urin and hanan, which were further divided to each encompass two of the four provinces, Chinchasuyu (NW), Antisuyu (NE), Cuntisuyu (SW), and Collasuyu (SE). A road led from each of these quarters to the corresponding quarter of the empire. Each local leader was required to build a house in the city and live part of the year in Cuzco, but only in the quarter of Cuzco that corresponded to the quarter of the empire he had territory in. After Pachacuti, when an Inca died his title went to one son and his property was given to a corporation controlled by his other relatives, so each title holder had to build a new house and add new lands to the empire, in order to own any home and the land his family needed to maintain it after his death. Andean Indians still abandon their homes and build new ones when they marry, even if no one remains in the house.
According to Inca legend, the city was built by Sapa Inca Pachacuti, the man who transformed the Kingdom of Cuzco from a sleepy city-state into the vast empire of Tahuantinsuyu. But archaeological evidence points to a slower, more organic growth of the city beginning before Pachacuti. There was however a city plan, and two rivers were channeled around the city.
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CuzcoToday a proud symbol of the Conquistadores, the historic Spanish conquerors, towers over the town of Cuzco in Peru�s mountains.Prior to the arrival of the Spanish, Cuzco lay at the centre of the Inca world and was the capital and religious centre of an immense kingdom.The unique combination of Spanish and Inca culture is apparent in the attractive architecture of the town.Typical characteristics of the houses are the overhanging tiled roofs and beautiful old balconies.One of the town�s most extravagant colonial buildings, the Compa�De Jes�urch in the Plaza De Armas Square, was built on mighty Inca foundations.Some of Cuzco�s streets still display the impressive and sturdy architecture of the Inca people.Attractive houses line the former procession roads of the Inca that led from the main square, today�s Plaza De Armas, to the Sun Temple.Although historic, Cuzco is full of mystery and speculation with regard to its famous Inca predecessors. Global Treasures – History’s Most Protected Monuments – Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live today, and what we pass on to future generations.Our cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration.Places as unique and diverse as the wilds of East Africa’s Serengeti, the Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Baroque cathedrals of Latin America make up our world’s heritage.Join us as we explore one of these protected monuments.

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Inti Raymi – first part of the 26 min. long movie showing main event of the Inca’s annual festival of the Sun. Inti Raymi marks a beginning of the Inca’s New Year. Performers speak Quechua language. English subtitles.Visit http://vimeo.com/user466454 and watch this video in HD

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Meet the Vicuna – the national animal of Peru.

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Slideshow of ‘Valle Sagrado’ (Sacred Valley of the Inca) outside Cuzco, Andes Highlands, Pisac Market, Urubamba River, Alpaca Carpaccio at Tunupu Restaurant (Km. 77) and Ollantaytambo Inca Ruins. Soundtrack ‘Munaq’ by Miki Gonzalez from Cafe Inkaterra ‘04

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DANZA PERU CARNAVAL DE QATQA CUSCO MUSIC AND DANCE FROM PERU Grupo Inca the Peruvian Ensemble
Director Guillermo Bordarampe
peruinca@earthlink.net
Los Angeles, CA
USA”INCA”, the Peruvian Ensemble was founded in 1981 in Los Angeles, for the purpose of researching, preserving and presenting Peru’s rich multi-cultural heritage of ethnic and folkloric music, songs, dance and traditions. INCA performs music and dances form the Andean region (Inca heritage), from the central and northern coasts (Criollo, Hispanic heritage), from the southern coast (Afro-Peruvian, Black heritage), and from the Peruvian Amazon jungle (jungle natives heritage).

Since its onset, “INCA” has gained steadily in artistic excellence and in reputation as one of the west coast’s leading ethnic performing companies. Concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, the Redlands Bowl, The Fresno Civic Auditorium, Zion National Park, El Paso’s El Chamizal Ampitheater, Santa Fe’s Greer Garson Theater, Albuquerque’s S.B.C.C., Colorado State University, Colorado College, etc., are true indicators that the company has a feisty following throughout California and the western states. In ‘93-’94 “INCA” performed at Mingus Auditorium in Cottonwood, AZ; at the Luther Burbank Ctr. for the Performing Arts in Santa Rosa, CA; Saddleback Community College in Mission Viejo, CA; Fiesta Inn in Mesa, AZ.; in ‘95 “INCA” performed at the Detroit Institute of Art, in Lake Tahoe with the Tahoe Arts Project and at the John Anson Ford Theater. In ‘96 INCA hosted a Peruvian Independence Day Festival at the John Anson Ford Theater, performing with famous Peruvian singer Ms. Edith Barr. INCA also performed with Edith Barr in San Francisco and Salt Lake City, Utah. In February of ‘97 INCA performed and conducted workshops and educational presentations at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, and in ‘98 at U.C. Davis.

“INCA” has also received support from the Cultural Affairs Department of the city of Los Angeles, the California Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Community Foundation, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the National/State/County Partnership, and various businesses, corporations and individuals in the southern California area.

With the aid of these grants, “INCA” has produced several recordings that contain a cross section of the company’s repertoire. These recordings help the group to preserve some of this ethnic material, which in many cases would be lost otherwise. In December of 1997 “INCA” released “Danzante”. It was sold at various record stores in the Los Angeles area, New York Natural History Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, etc. In 2001 INCA released its latest CD, “Que siga la Farra”, a great collection of Andean songs.

INCA is distinguished among Southamerican ethnic groups because the musicians not only perform music from the mountains of the Andean region, but also from the coast (Hispanic influenced valses, polkas, and Afro-Peruvian rhythms), and from the selva or Peruvian Amazon jungle. They also perform with as many as eight dancers using typical costumes from these various regions.
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is know for spreading the peruvian music and dances in southern ca.thru the u.s. Even though he wasnt peruvian he found the music group “Inca Peruvian Essemble” the most reconized in southern ca. He founded the group in 1980.
www.raicesperuanas.com
Los Angeles, CA
USA

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This is some of the earliest color footage of Machu Picchu in Cuzco, Peru taken in June and July of 1950. 
The film begins at a railroad station with people in a cattle car and men on the roof playing instruments. 
A woman spins at a busy marketplace. The camera pans a narrow steep gorge approaching Machu Picchu revealing terrace farming on side of steep mountain, the valley at base of Machu Picchu, sunrise over terrace farms and ruins, and water coming out of ” princess” quarters. Inca stone buildings amid terrace forms on high steep side of mountain near the peak. The camera tracks the view from the plane back to Lima looking southeast toward the mountains.

All rights are reserved by the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum). Any use of the footage in productions is forbidden unless rights have been secured by contacting the Penn Museum Archives at 215-898-8304, or emailfilms@museum.upenn.edu.

This film and all of the films in the Penn Museum collection are copyrighted by the Penn Museum, and are not in the public domain.

 Full length footage can be seen at http://www.archive.org

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Cuzco, Peru is one of the world’s most historic cities, with original architeture built by the Inca and beautiful Spanish Colonial buildings. We walk the narrow streets and visit shops and restauraants.

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