Free walking tour in Cusco

Free walking tour in Cusco
Explore the city of Cusco on foot on our free walking tour of Cusco in English, with experienced guides. Read more
We visit the most outstanding places of this beautiful city known as the “Little Rome of America,” Peru.
All our free tours through the historic center of Cusco are highlighted for providing a 100% cultural, dynamic, and entertaining tour with a duration of two and a half hours, providing the most fun tour with local guides who are from the same city of Cuzco, and letting you know the real history of the Incas from the hands of professionals in two separate groups, Spanish and English.
on all our free walking tour routes and itineraries. We do not take you shopping in bars, restaurants, craft shops, etc. Our free tours are exclusively cultural.
Yes, we recommend, but we don’t enter, Our company values our ancestors’ history and gladly shares it with you.
We also offer you a free walking tour to Sacsayhuaman (inka ruin) or a free bike tour
It’s good to know:
- It is necessary to reserve online.
- Available times: 10 a.m. & 1 pm. 3:30 pm. (Mon-Sat) – sunday only 10 am.
- Duration: 2.5 hours
- Reschedule free of charge.
- Cash payment in local currency or dollars (cash)
- Type of the tour: walking tour
- Distance: about 1.5 km. (we go according to your physical condition).
- Altitude: 3,400 m – 3,430 m.
- Activity level: easy
- Price: Based on tips
- Start of the tour: Regocijo square (kusipa)
Including:
- Official tourism guide, specialized in walking tour
- Full support
- A great experience!
Additional options:
- Private walking tour: available
- Group size: Groups from: 2 to 20 participants
- Ideal group size: 8 participants
- Minimum: 2 participants
- For larger groups, we provide an additional guide.
Places to visit:
- Qoricancha – Temple of the Sun
- Inca Pachacutec – Cusicancha
- Plaza de Armas Cusco
- loreto street
- Rejoicing Square
- Saint Francis Square
- College Sciences
- Santa Clara Arch, built in 1835
- San Pedro Market
- Inca Tupac Yupanqui Palace
- End of the tour (two blocks from the mean square)
Bring:
- Comfortable clothes
- Comfortable shoes for walking
- Waterproof jacket (months from November to March)
- Sunscreen.
- Sunglasses.
- A bottle of water
- Tip for the Guide
- Send us a message by WhatsApp detailing the schedule, language of your free tour and also registering your name, surname and how many people are in your group.
- or just show up at our meeting point
- Meeting point: Regocijo square (kusipa)
- It is necessary to reserve in advance!
Cusco, Relevant Sites
Qoricancha (Temple of the Sun)
The Qoricancha, located two blocks from the main square, is an Inca and pre-Inca construction, covered by the Dominican church, considered a sacred place in Inca times where you could only enter fasting, barefoot, and with a load on the back as a sign of humility to the sun god (inti). Read more
We tell you this and much more in our Free Tour of Cusco.
Palace of the Inca Pachacutec (Cusicancha)
The Pachacutec palace is located one block from the plaza with 8 Inca enclosures, a construction with stone and adobe, a whole structural level of pre-Inca settlement that allows us to know how the royal palace of the Incas was formerly, in this Tour we will enter from free way.
Inca streets
Explore the Inca streets on our free walking tour of Cusco. You will be impressed with the millenary city of Cusco, considered the navel of the Inca Empire and the capital of its organizational, political, religious, and economic center. Buildings, urban centers, and temples that were important to the Incas in their heyday, which are still preserved in their original state.
Cusco’s Plaza de Armas
The Plaza de Armas of Cusco known as huacaypata (place of tears), is surrounded by restaurants, bars, travel agencies, hotels and churches, such as the cathedral, the Company of Jesus, built on Inca foundations. Also on this tour for Tips in Cusco, you will see the symbolic tomb of the revolutionary character Túpac Amaru II.
Cusco Cathedral
The Cathedral of Cusco is a construction that took more than 100 years from 1560 to 1664 in one of the Inca palaces. Inside the Cathedral of Cusco is an exceptional collection of canvases, such as “The Last Supper” with a peculiar change to the Andean style, different from the original canvas by Leonardo da Vinci, we will tell you about the unusual change of the original canvas.
Regocijo Square (Kusipata), Cusco
The Plazoleta Regocijo, known by the locals in their native Quechua language as “kusitapa”, which means “happy place,” in this beautiful Regocijo Square, is one of the main public entities that watches over the town, the Municipality of Cusco, council or town hall.
Inca Garcilazo Museum
The Cusco Regional Historical Museum It is located in the Regocijo square, a gleaming colonial house where the first biological Mestizo of Inca and Hispanic descent lived, Inca Garcilazo de la Vega, he was a writer and historian, one of his works recognized and published in Lisbon in the year 1609 was “the real comments of the Incas”, in our Free Tour in Cusco you will know much more!
Plaza San Francisco, Cusco
The Plaza San Francisco is located two blocks from the main square, in this place you can see a beautiful garden of Medicinal Plants of the Sierra and Jungle of Peru, come and meet some of these native plants in our Tour of Cusco.
Santa Clara Arch, Peru
The Arch of Santa Clara is a monument dedicated to the confederation of Peru and Bolivia and is considered one of the most beautiful republican arch works in Peru. That is, the design was inspired by the Roman Arches of three lights, We also explain the design with an Andean Condor that is in the upper part of the Arch of Santa Clara.
San Pedro-Cusco Central Market
The Central Market of San Pedro is located 5 blocks from the main square and was built in 1925. Designed by Gustave Alexandre Eiffel, author of the famous Paris Tower (France) you will learn about some native fruits, fruit juices, local foods, and varieties of corn, potatoes and much more.
San Pedro Church – Cusco
The Church of San Pedro began its construction in 1688 as a hospital for the natives, destroyed by the earthquake of 1650, starting another new construction in 1699 by the indigenous, Juan Tomas Tuyru Tupac Inca, built with a single nave, and a façade in the traditional Cusco style inspired by cathedral molds. Come and join our Free Guided Tours Cusco.
Do you know the origin of the Cuzqueña flag?
Here on our Walks of Cusco we tell you everything, The flag of Cusco is designed with 7 horizontal colors and was adopted as the main logo of one of the local radio stations known as Tahuantinsuyo in 1948 by Raúl Montesino and was adopted by the Municipality of Cusco in 1978.
MTB TOUR CUSCO & SACRED VALLEY

AMAZON JUNGLE TO MACHU PICCHU MTB 5 DAYS
- Duration: 5 days
- Type of the route: Road XC
- Difficulty: Easy
- Distance: 144km.
- Location: Cusco-Quillabamba
699.00 USD

PATALARES ENDURO TOUR
- Duration: half day
- Type of the route: enduro
- Difficulty: blue/black diamond
- Distance: 13km.
- Location: Sacred valley
110.00 USD

PATACANCHA ENDURO
- Duration: half day
- Type of the route: enduro
- Difficulty: blue/black diamond
- Distance: 28km.
- Location: Sacred Valley
105.00 USD

E-BIKE TOUR CUSCO
- Duration: half day & Package
- Type of the route: enduro/XC
- Difficulty: Green/blue/black diamond
- Distance: 11k. to 28km.
- Locations: Cusco-sacred valley-south valley
99.00 USD

E-BIKE TOUR CUSCO
- Duracion: 4 horas & Paquetes
- Tipo de ruta: enduro/xc
- Dificultad: Green/blue/black diamond
- Distancia: 11k. a 28km.
- Ubicacion: Cusco-valle sagrado-valley sur
99.00 USD

Perú Photography Tour
- Duratión: 2.5 hours
- Type of the tour: photographic
- Difficulties: moderate
- Location: Cusco
29.00 USD

Hikking tour Perú
- Duratión: full days & Packages
- Type of the adventure: trekking
- Difficulties: moderate & advanced
- Locations: Cusco, sacred valley, Ausangate

CLASSIC TOURS PERU
- Durations: full day & Packages
- Type of the tours: traditional
- Difficulties: moderate
- Locations: Cusco & Machu Picchu

MTB CUSCO & MACHU PICCHU
- Duratión: half days & 1 day
- Type of the routes: all MTB
- Difficulties: moderate & advanced
- Locations: Sacred Valley & South valley

PERU PACKAGES MTB
- Duratión: 2-9 days
- Type of the routes: all MTB
- Difficulties: moderate & advanced
- Locations: Cusco, Lima & Machu Picchu

Amazon Manu jungle
- Duration: 4 days
- Type of the route: cross-country/road
- Difficulty: intermediate
- Distance: 145k./80k.
- Location: Cusco jungle
599.00 USD

Inka Jungle to Machu Picchu
- Duration: 3 days
- Type of the route: road
- Difficulty: intermediate
- Distance: 70k. + 13k. walking
- Location: Cusco jungle/Machu picchu
360.00 USD

Palcoyo XC Trail
- Duration: full day
- Type of the route: XC trail
- Difficulty: bassic/advanced
- Distance: 39k./25k.
- Location: south valley
99.00 USD

Maras Moray MTB TOUR XC
- Duration: half day/full day
- Type of the route: XC trail
- Difficulty: bassic/advanced
- Distance: 35k./15k.
- Location: Sacred valley
85.00 USD

Rainbow mountain hike & biking
- Duration: full day
- Type of the route: XC trail
- Difficulty: bassic/advanced
- Distance: 24/41k.
- Location: south valley
99.00 USD
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