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 Lima, Peru’s Export and Tourism Promotion Board (PromPeru) said Sunday that its representatives will travel to Argentina and Italy to participate in events with tour operators of these countries to provide them information on the main tourist attractions in Peru.According to a supreme decree of Peru’s Foreign Trade and Tourism Ministry (Mincetur), PromPeru official Lizbeth Corrales will travel from May 17 to 22 to the city of Cordoba in Argentina.

 She will carry out different tourism promotion activities during the “Door to Door Argentina” event which will be held in Cordoba from May 18 to 21.

 Corrales will contact the most important tour operators from Argentina to provide them with specialized and up-to-date information on tourist destinations in Peru.Other supreme decree of the Mincetur authorizes the trip of PromPeru’s Tourism Promotion director Jacqueline Saettone and also Rocio Florian Ventura to the cities of Rome and Bologna in Italy, from May 16 to 21. 

Both officials will also perform different tourism promotion activities representing PromPeru, during the event called “Workshop Italy,” which will take place in the cities of Rome and Bologna from May 18 to 20.

Foreign tourists and local people. Photo: ANDINA / Percy Hurtado.

Just two hours from Ica, 50 square km of desert floor were covered centuries ago by vast drawings, figures of mammals, insects and deities. The Nazca Lines, discovered in 1927, are the most extraordinary legacy left by a culture that flourished in 300 BC. The lines are a series of complex designs, some up to 300 meters long which can only be seen in their true dimension from the sky, from an altitude of at least 1,500 feet. The Nazca culture is not believed to have been capable of manned flight. But the question remains as to how they crafted the drawings, what technology they used and what purpose the lines served.

The town of Nazca was founded in 1591 by the Spaniards, on the valley of Nazca, close to towns inhabited by old civilizations that had been dominated by the Inca. The ancestral name was Nanasca.

Nazca, is a gentle town, slowly developing; in which its main economic activity is based on the agriculture and the trade.

Tourism to this area is related directly with the Nazca Lines and other archaeological complex as Cahuachi, Estaquería, Chauchilla cemetery and Paredones. In the city you will be able to find many ceramic artisans whose style remembers to their ancestor. Nazca has comfortable hotels, restaurants, banks, Internet cabins, and an aerodrome. Hard money training