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Within his official duties during his trip to Peru, on November 25th, 2001, Queen Sofia of Spain made an unscheduled stop in the city of Cusco. She paid a private visit to the site being excavated by the Pi Rambla Explorer Team.
Anselm Pi Rambla, who heads the project, took the queen on a tour of the Chinkana Grande at Saqsaywaman and Koricancha convent. Afterwards, Queen Sofia expressed her support for the excavation and commended the team's efforts.

After her visit to the works, the Queen showed great interest in the excavations and she encouraged the entire team in the success of the project.

The discoverer of the Juanita mummy and a National Geographic Society researcher, John Reinhard, entertained us with his presence at the works of Koricancha. Accompanied by Peter Frost, they visited all of the works within the sector of the Church. Reinhard remarked to the director of the project, Anselm Pi Rambla, that what surprised him the most was that the Dominican Order granted excavation permits in the Koricancha, an area so intangible that it had not been discovered for many years. These permits were granted by the religious authorities.

While excavation work was in progress, we received a visit from Dr. Tom Zuidema, one of the most outstanding specialists in Andean culture. He is a professor at the University of Illinois with recognized international prestige. During his visit, he exchanged impressions with Anselm Pi Rambla about the latest discoveries made in the Chinkana Grande sector. As a specialist in the Inca ceque system, the professor analyzed the perimeter walls discovered by the Pi Rambla team and confirmed the site as an important funerary huaca of the Incas

On December 20, 2000, a conference was held at the Santo Domingo Convent in Cusco, Peru, for the international press, where the KORICANCHA PROJECT was presented. The speakers included Luis Enrique Tord, the director of the National Institute of Culture, Father Héctor Herrera, the prior of the Convent of Santo Domingo, Anselm Pi Rambla and Javier Sierra, the journalist moderator

On March 23, 2001, an international press conference was held at the prestigious institution, "Casa de América," in Madrid, Spain to present the KORICANCHA PROJECT to the media.

This event was organized by Casa de América and the Consul of Peru in Spain. During the press conference, the project's latest advances and discoveries were reported, including the discovery of a 17th-century crypt and evidence of important structures detected based on the latest radar scans.

On Friday, March 8, 2003, a conference was held in the Raúl Porras Barrenechea Chamber of the Congress of the Republic of Peru on 'THE RESCUE OF THE SOLAR CITADEL OF SAQSAYWAMAN AND ITS UNDERGROUND GALLERIES'. This was an archaeological scientific project of cultural interest for Peru, whose program was designed by Anselm Pi Rambla, a researcher and specialist in pre-Columbian cultures.

We would like to inform you that, based on recent research and scientific data obtained in SAQSAYWAMAN and in the TEMPLE OF THE SUN OF THE INCAS (Convent of Santo Domingo - Koricancha), important structures and galleries have been discovered inside. For many years, researchers have provided data on the existence of these galleries, which would connect the Temple of the Sun with Sacsayhuamán, located 1.2 kilometers from the Koricancha complex, crossing the entire city of Cusco. It is also possible that part of the Inca gold was hidden inside these galleries, as it could have been stored in that underground network during the time of the conquest.