ABOUT THE LLAQTA PUNKU

At the entrance of Ollantaytambo there is a building called as Llaqta Punku, that means town’s gate, it has two doors one to get in and the other to get out the town, next to there are two big niches that kept into maybe soldiers protecting the town, from here also you will see that people built their houses on agricultural terraces, and some terraces still are working for agriculture, on the road there is a place called as the street of the 100 niches, maybe this was an inclosure because in all rooms, inclosures, palaces niches are inside and not outside, probable it was an inclosure that was destroyed and after people built their houses and the street to visit the city, along the street notice that still remains some characteristics of Inka’s city planning, there are some chroniclers who mention that when they got into Cusco by the first time they saw in many streets one channel in the in middle or at one side of the street carrying clean water for drinking of the city, the same we have in Ollantaytambo.