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Peru celebrates National Pavilion Day
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It was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Since then, Machu Picchu has become an important tourist attraction.
Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983.
The proud heritage of Peru also leads us to another UNESCO Heritage site -- the Nazca Lines. It's a series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert of Peru.
The lines are shallow designs made in the ground by removing the ubiquitous reddish pebbles and uncovering the whitish ground beneath. Hundreds are simple lines or geometric shapes, more than seventy are designs of animal, bird, fishing or human figures. Scholars believe the Nazca Lines were created by the Nazca culture between 400 and 650 AD. The designs were thought to carry religious significance.
Apart from cultural heritage, the Peru Pavilion also displays the diversified cooking traditions of Peru and how they have made great contributions to world cuisine.
Peruvian cooking has a history of several hundred years, and it integrates cooking methods of local Indian and Spanish colonists.
