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The Cusco's City is the ineludible starting point to visit all her extensive patrimony. From here the fascinating Valle Sagrado of the Incas can be visited, right now than in a radio of only 120 kilometers Machupicchu finds the majority of the archeological remains, among themselves,.
Parade ground:
Named Auqaypata or Plaza of the Warrior in time of the Incas, it is the Cusco's heart. His houses with beautiful porches, his balconies and bars, his buildings constructed on Inca palaces, they have an unequivocal colonial air. The Parade Ground or Bigger Plaza, the national history was witness of a lot of events that they dialed. In her the lavish ceremony of the Inti Raymi in the Incas' epoch was coming true, there Pizarro made the Cusco's Spanish foundation the March 23, 1534, in 1781 Tupac Amaru's and your family's execution.
The Cathedral, Triumph's temples, Jesús, María and José are unmistakable elements to his majestic architecture.

The Cathedral Large Church:

He contains one of the bigger collections of colonial art of the Peru. It was erected in 94 years, primitively in that go the SuntulWasi's Inca construction, where today the Triunfo.Posterior's Womb raises the temple itself ordered the construction of the Cathedral news at the Kiswarkancha's building lot, ancient Inca neighborhood and the Inca Wiraqocha's palace itself.
The Cathedral is shaped by a plant of Latin cross, with processional corridors of the lost and deambulatory steps, have a chapter house, three ships, sacristy, ten side chapels and communication with Triumph's temples, Jesús, María and José.

The foreign façade like of the inside they belong to the renaissance style. The maximum height belongs to 32,97 mts. The inside is profusely decorated with wooden sizes of cedar and alder. Beautiful Martín Torres's sizes and Melchor Huamán stand out. Between these works the chorus, the pulpit, as well as the wooden carvings in altars and furniture are of account.

Exists oceans of paintings, as well as works in embossed silver, being of singular importance the processional carriage, the bier, frontals and other ornaments.

Between the more important chapels the dedicated to the Virgin of the Remedies, Chokonchaqa's Virgin, the Inmaculada Concepción's Chapel stand out or otherwise called The Linda of the Cathedral. At the cathedral the Mister of the Moderate Earthquakes, Patrón Sworn To of the Cusco are venerated.
At the tower of the side of the Gospel the popularly so-called Campana finds itself installed María Angola ( Bigger Bell of Our Lady's Cathedral Asunción ), one of the biggest worldly, and whose twang convokes to the town for the religious celebrations, for the procession of the Mister of the Moderate Earthquakes, of the Corpus Christi and when he takes the village presence in transcendental moments to the Cusco.

The Society Of Jesus:

You went placed by the parents of the Order Jesuita, that got to the Cusco in 1571. In 1576 the construction in the Amaru Kancha, the Inca Wayna Qhapaq's Palacio began.
The earthquake of 1650, you affected your construction gravely, restarting the new edification in 1661. The total finishing accomplished en15 itself years, inaugurándose the August 19, 1668.
The plant comes from Latin cross, have a very ship, two towers with bull's eyes that they delimit themselves limiting oneself to the imafronte, the cruiser finishes off work of baroque style in a dome of great architectonic invoice of singular, highlighting in the inside the great work of carving of the pilgrim's shells, equally of artistic baroque canon.
Altarpieces are wooden of cedar and a great majority they are golden with the gold sheet. Exists oceans of pieces of cloth that they represent Isabel's marriage Ñusta Princesa of the Peru with Loyola's Diego Oñás.
Between the most relevant sculptures he has the one belonging to San Jerónimo, San Francisco and the Mister of Burgas, a Christ that has the peculiarity of taking incrusted in a nail each foot.

Temple and Convent of Mercy:

The ancient cloister and temple worked to 1650, year in which they got uninhabitable because of the earthquake. In 1675 you finalized the construction with participation highlighted of indigenous master builders.
The façade belongs to great beauty, highlight the tower of the temple of an exceptional stonework of the baroque style. The three-ship plant with pilastrones and arches forneros; The first cloister with an exornation riquísima in wooden sizes of cedar.
The work what else highlights in goldsmithery cusqueña she is custodian of Mercy. The religious art's this incalculable jewel is of double style, the superior section of baroque style went accomplished for the goldsmith españo1 Olmos's uan in the year 1720 and her renaissance, inferior section went worn-out for the goldsmith cusqueño Emmanuel of the Stone the year 1805. Weigh 22 kilos with 200 grams, 1,30 subways of height with 1.500 diamonds, 615 pearls, rubies, topazes and emeralds.

Convent and St. Francis's Temple:

Founded for the parents Franciscans the year of 1645 with two façades and only tower, everything of stonework of Spanish ancient style. You finalized the work in 1652. Show like attractive singulars his catacombs, religious paintings and sizes in wood.
In the inside of the Convent a spectacular and monumental piece of cloth finds itself that the x measures 12 9 mts that franciscana with over 600 characters that do not repeat among themselves represents to the family's family tree, accomplished for the painter Juan Espinoza of the Whipper-Ins.

Temple and Convent of Holy White Of Egg:

The foundation was made in Santa Clara's boulevard in 1558. They intervened in architecture, master builders and stonemasons of mixed racial ancestry and Indian.
Count on a formidable bigger altar and altarpiece with smoked glasses, that they turn it into the only sample of this style in the Cusco. It was constructed by Oquendo's Pedro.

St. Pedro's Temple:

It was built-up at the same place of Naturales's Hospital, the year of 1668. The inside is sober. The Church contains a lot of pictorial works, sculptures, sizes and important golds. The pulpit was an artist that made the factory, Juan Tomás Tuyro Túpac carvedly all by himself.

Temple and Convent St. Catharine's:

Your foundation reciprocates 1605 a year, at the building lots of the Aqlla Wasi or The Virgins of the sun. Santa Catalina's architecture corresponds to last stages of renaissance, with presence of arcades of Roman style. Have a chapter house with wall paintings and other works of art like magnificent works in goldsmithery, standing out custodian, textilería, sculptures, golds, altarpieces acne. They add to this valuable their pieces of cloth.

In your inside an interesting Museum works.

Holy Sunday's Temple:

Edified on the bases of the Qorikancha of the Incas.

The Dominican order was founded at the city of the Cusco in 1534. The first Convent went from this order that established itself in the Peru. The terremo cough of 1650 and 1950 affected gravely your cons truction, which is why proceeded itself to your restoration.

Santo Domingo's Temple has identical DIs position and form than Mercy and San Francisco. The building preserves characters of the architecture of the XVIth century and the arquitec's whole evolution tura cusqueña is symbolized for this construc ción of arrogance invoices.

The tower of the Temple of profusely baroque style, belongs at the beginning of the century XVIII. the very Ella is a Peruvian momumento of architecture. It is also from highlighting the window blind that you have at the Church's apse. Another jewel that the dominicios save is Santo Domingo's image of Guzmán hewn out of 1698 for the Indian sculptor Melchor Huamán and paintings that they correspond to Juan of Espinoza and Diego Quispe Ttito.

Qorikancha, the great Temple of the sun:

The Qorikancha went definitely, the more fabulous, big and riquísimo I temper constructed for the Incas. In your climax he becomes most formidable work, the artistic genius's product and of creative force of the Tawantinsuyo. As architectonic work is the more finishing of the structural technicality of the tawantinsuyanos and from the religious point of view the most important went from all the temples, where the high priest lived and taught the cult in the sunlight, accompanied of a good number of other priests and chosen women, especially for the service to the solar god.
According to the Incas' cosmogony, the Qorikancha, you were located downtown of the world.
From him the ceqes or roads, that were the connections of the Temple with all the sacred places were going out. The four main ceqes constituted the limit of the four parts of The Inca world ( Tawantinsuyo ).
The most interesting parts of the Temple of the sun, the real rooms and the consecrated are the Moon, of the stars, of the Rainbow and the semicircular large fortified tower, that he characterizes the monument externally.

St. Blas:

The parish church was constructed in the XVIth century being made of in the most ancient the Cusco.
In your inside he finds ST. BLAS'S Pulpit, the most extraordinary work of artistic carpentry, of Churrigueresque Spanish style. It is the size in more impressive cedar that he knows himself in the Peru, accomplished for hands cusqueñas.
The bigger altarpiece is of baroque and browned style.
The Neighborhood De San Bi-Ases, known as neighborhood of the craftsmen, he is one of the most characteristic places of the Cusco, with typical streets and alleys, old built-up big houses Inca walls. From the top he has one of the best sights of the city. The whole neighborhood is practically a permanent sample of art, for in him the creative talent of the best image makers, sculptors, painters and ceramists finds itself that his works expose all Saturdays at San's Small Square Bi-Ases and the December 24 in the Parade Ground's Santurantikuy.
At the Small Square he finds himself like characteristic element a beautiful ornamental fountain and a scene used for different artistic and cultural activities.

The street HATUN RUMIYOQ:

With the Inti K'ijllo, it is the congested street for the tourists. In one of your stone walls belonging to Inca Roca's Palace ( present-day Palacio Arzobispal ) the famous Piedra is in the twelve Angles, enigmatic lithic element that arouses many people's admiration. Besides the street serves as access to San's neighborhood Bi-Ases.