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Machu Picchu means old mountain, name that alludes to the place where it is located on a rocky promontory between the hills of Huchuy Picchu and Huayna Picchu, about 2453 meters high. This archaeological gem of the ancient Inca empire in Peru is one of the most international tourist icons.
One of the curiosities that surprises visitors is that in this sacred city there is a large solitary tree, the Pisonay, native to the tropical Andes and which was already cultivated by the Incas before the arrival of the Europeans.
On the other side of the oceans, in a sea, the Mediterranean, I have captured this perspective of another rocky promontory from which a tree sticks out on one side, on the Costa Brava.
I define this photograph in The Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia as: “Machu Picchu resting on the S’Agaró ring road”. The image transports us to one of the most idyllic and emblematic places on the Baix Empordà coast.
The beach of S’Agaró y Sant Pol, which it shares with the municipality of Sant Feliu de Guíxols, is one of the most outstanding on the Costa Brava, very close to Platja d’Aro. In fact, the beach is divided into two municipalities -Sant Feliu de Guíxols and Castell-Platja d’Aro- but it is known as a single bay that begins in the urbanization of La Gavina.
This beach is also witness to one of the sections of the coastal path, which occupies about 4 kilometers. The bay is one of the best known on the Costa Brava.
