However, should travellers overlap with one of the many celebrations centred in Ollantaytambo, such as the Three Kings festival on 6 January, they will witness a town up at all hours.
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Once a country retreat for Inca royalty and nobility, Ollantaytambo is also where the Incas also fought some of their last battles, resisting Spanish conquest from the still intact fortress and staggered terraces rising up around the town.
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