Welcome to Machu Picchu 🇵🇪 . . . More than 7,000 feet above sea level, Machu Piccu sits in the Andes Mountains. Machu Picchu was declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary site and voted in 2007 one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", it is the most familiar icon of Inca civilization. The Incas built the estate around 1450 but abandoned it a century later, at the time of the Spanish conquest. 📍Andes Mountain, Peru 🇵🇪