Music & Arts Tour in Cusco Sacred Valley

Free Music & Arts Tour in Cusco Sacred Valley with Roamee Pro

Roamee Pro, also known as Roamee, offers a free music & arts tour route in Cusco Sacred Valley. The audio walking tour can include stops such as Ollantaytambo ruins and town — A massive Inca fortress and temple complex with perfectly fitted stone terraces rising above the town, where Manco Inca famously defeated the Spanish in 1536 — one of the only Inca military victories over the conquistadors. The unfinished Sun Temple at the summit features six enormous rose-colored monoliths quarried from a mountainside 6 km away and transported across a river. The town below retains its original Inca grid plan with stone water channels still flowing through narrow streets, making it the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in South America., Pisac ruins and market — a massive Inca citadel on a mountaintop above the Sacred Valley, with a famous Sunday market where Quechua communities trade textiles, pottery, and produce, Moray circular terraces — concentric Inca agricultural terraces descending into natural sinkholes, believed to have been an agricultural laboratory for testing crop adaptation at different altitudes, plus hidden gems like Huchuy Qosqo — a lesser-known Inca site accessible by a half-day hike from Lamay, with panoramic views and none of the crowds and Maras salt terraces (Salineras) — thousands of salt evaporation ponds cascading down a mountainside, still harvested using pre-Inca techniques.

Use this page as a starting point for a Cusco Sacred Valley walking tour, a free route, or the Roamee app for Cusco Sacred Valley. Roamee Pro keeps the route flexible so you can follow the stops, skip ahead, or explore nearby streets at your own pace.

• •Ollantaytambo ruins and town — A massive Inca fortress and temple complex with perfectly fitted stone terraces rising above the town, where Manco Inca famously defeated the Spanish in 1536 — one of the only Inca military victories over the conquistadors. The unfinished Sun Temple at the summit features six enormous rose-colored monoliths quarried from a mountainside 6 km away and transported across a river. The town below retains its original Inca grid plan with stone water channels still flowing through narrow streets, making it the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in South America.
• •Pisac ruins and market — a massive Inca citadel on a mountaintop above the Sacred Valley, with a famous Sunday market where Quechua communities trade textiles, pottery, and produce
• •Moray circular terraces — concentric Inca agricultural terraces descending into natural sinkholes, believed to have been an agricultural laboratory for testing crop adaptation at different altitudes
• •Chinchero textile demonstrations — a highland village where Quechua women demonstrate traditional Inca-era weaving techniques using backstrap looms, natural dyes from plants and insects
• •Maras salt mines — thousands of shallow salt evaporation pools cascading down a hillside, in continuous use since Inca times, creating a stunning white-terraced landscape fed by a saline spring

• •Huchuy Qosqo — a lesser-known Inca site accessible by a half-day hike from Lamay, with panoramic views and none of the crowds
• •Maras salt terraces (Salineras) — thousands of salt evaporation ponds cascading down a mountainside, still harvested using pre-Inca techniques
• •Urubamba Brewery — a craft brewery in the valley town of Urubamba using local ingredients, popular with trekkers

• ›Check what's on tonight before you set out — local listings sites and venue socials beat any guidebook for live music, openings, and pop-ups.
• ›Head for the converted-industrial or formerly-cheap-rent district. That's where studios, small venues, and the freshest street art consistently land.
• ›Wander Huchuy Qosqo and the lanes around it slowly — murals change often, and the best work is rarely on the main street.
• ›Choose small rooms over big arenas. A 100-person venue with a local act tells you more about a city's sound than a stadium tour ever will.
• ›Go in the evening and buy directly from the artists and venues when you can — it's the scene's lifeline and gets you the real stories.