Fertur-Travel
Fertur-Travel
The town of Nazca, founded in 1595 by order of Viceroy Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, 800 years after the Nasca culture thrived in the arid region from 300 B.C. to 800 A.D.
The color and perfection of that ancient culture’s ceramics are renowned worldwide.
They also produced the famed Nazca Lines, hundreds of geoglyphs etched into the arid plateau that stretches more than 80 kilometers, or some 50 miles, between Nazca and the town of Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana.
The figures are considered Cultural Patrimony by UNESCO.
The complexity and breadth of the lines can only be fully appreciated from the air:
From simple geometric figures to tremendous stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks, llamas and lizards.
