Peru. For centuries home of the high civilizations of the Andes. Here the Sun Kings of the Inca ruled over a vast empire, which stretched for 2,000 miles along the mountain spine of South America. In 1532, that empire was destroyed with tragic ease by the Spanish. As their world crumbled around them, Inca nobles retreated into the remote recesses of the mountains. There they struggled to keep alive their culture in its final refuge. The last city of the Incas Vilcabamba. This is the story of two men lured by the silent call of that last Inca hiding place. One to rediscover it the other to destroy it forever. Machu Picchu. For centuries, this spectacular Inca citadel lay forgotten, hidden by the plunging ravines and coiling mists of the mountain cloud forest.