Trail to Mountaintop City
The Inca Trail approaches Machu Picchu in exquisite interplay with the human-made and natural lines of terraces and mountains. This trail would have framed the processional approach to the sacred city, here just beginning to emerge into view in the distance. As in sacred geography elsewhere in the world – Delphi, Kyoto – human movement through time and space can be given profound meaning and focus by architecture. (exhibit label)