Machu Picchu is listed as the Unesco world heritage site under the same name by the UN agency which calls it “among the greatest artistic and architectural” achievements and most significant ...

Politics As Many as 800 Tourists Left Stranded at Machu Picchu After Demonstrators Block the Only Route Out of the UNESCO Heritage Site Political upheaval in Peru is leaving tourists to its famed ...

An influx of tourists to Peru's famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu may prompt UNESCO to add the jungle-shrouded ruins to its list of endangered World Heritage sites. Yearly visits to Machu Picchu ...

Windstar revealed its 2026-27 winter itineraries in the Caribbean and Latin America, featuring a cruise tour that combines Machu Picchu with a seven-night Costa Rica and Panama Canal voyage.

Unesco describes Machu Picchu as “among the greatest artistic [and] architectural” achievements in the world, in addition to the “most significant tangible legacy of the Inca civilization.” ...

LIMA, Peru — An influx of tourists to Peru’s famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu may prompt UNESCO to add the jungle-shrouded ruins to its list of endangered World Heritage sites. Yearly visits ...

Machu Picchu was built at least two decades earlier than previously thought, radiocarbon dating seems to show.

The significant number of reports prepared by the UNESCO Secretariat and the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee represents an exceptional documentation on numerous conservation issues. It ...

In 2016, UNESCO threatened to place the World Heritage site on its list of places in danger—unless it cleaned up its act.

When proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1983, Machu Picchu registered 145,566 visitors. By 2000, that figure surpassed 420,000, and by 2019 it reached its all-time high of 1,585,262 visitors, ...

UNESCO World Heritage CentreAt its 27th session, the World Heritage Committee expressed, once again, its serious concerns about the management and planning arrangements of the Historic Sanctuary of ...