Juchuy Coscco
Royal Inca retreat of stone halls and terraces perched high above the Sacred Valley.
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This guide to Juchuy Coscco above Cusco's Sacred Valley opens with the eighth Inca, Viracocha, fleeing an approaching Chanca army and building this retreat as a private mirror of his own capital, while sending his son Pachacuti to defend the city instead. Pachacuti's victory reshaped everything: he deposed his own father and took the throne, leaving Viracocha to live out his life here in exile, a king with a great hall, storerooms and canals, but no empire. Look at the long stone hall behind you, forty meters that once sheltered his household, as you listen.
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