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	TRIPS TO PERU: CUZCO Cuzco in quechua means “navel of the world”, for being the capital of the empire Inca. It counts the legend that the city was founded by Able Manco and Occllo Breast, originating of the Titicaca Lake. During the incaica time (century XV), architect embellished it to Pachaqutek with admirable buildings, in which he emphasizes the fine carving of the stone, its perfect assembly and the trapezial forms. Then, with the arrival of the Spaniards, Cuzco, became a racially mixed and colonial city. The city, well-known like the Arquelógica Capital of America and declared Historical Patrimony of the Humanity in 1983, counts on very many attractive: the Place of Arms, Huacaypata call by the Incas, the district of the craftsmen of San Blas, the Convent of Santo Domingo, constructed on the Temple of the Sun or Koricancha, the palaces of the Inca and his cut, and a long list of others of archaeological and historical wonders. To the outskirts they are possible to be crossed, in addition, a series of circuits - that in their majority include the imposing ruins of Sacsayhuaman or of Tambomachay- in which the visitor can realize all type of sports of adventure and to be contributor of the most spectacular religious festivals of the continent. Some of these celebrations - like those of the Qoyllur Rit `i, that is realized to 4,000 meters on the level of the sea, the procession of Corpus Christi or the famous Inti Raymi- is counted between most impressive of the world. General performances: • Location: South-east of the country. • Extension: 72 104 km2s. • Relief: Cuzco presents/displays a steep relief, combines fertile interAndean valleys with imposing mountains to descend soon towards the forest eyebrow, where the temperature rises and the landscape is transformed into varied vegetation. • Altitude: 3.399 msnm • Climate: Cuzco has a temperature annual average of 11° (maximum of 17° and minim of -2° C). The dry although colder season is of May to August, whereas the season of rains is of December to March. • Access: Terrestrial route, recommends the route Lima - Arequipa - Cuzco (1494 km) passage that lasts approximately 24 hours in car. Aerial route, exists daily flights from Lima whose duration is of approximately one hour. Also it is possible to be acceded by railroad, since this one communicates to Cuzco with the cities of Puno and Arequipa. The trip by the route Arequipa - Juliaca - Cusco Fist (735 km) lasts of 23 hours approximately. • Minimum demurrage: between 3 and 4 days. • Important celebrations: Easter (March/April), Corpus Christi (May/June), Qoyllur Rity (May/June), mixes of the ancestral cult to mountains with catholic manifestations. 50 thousand people with typical clothes participate; Inti Raymi (24 of June), great folkloric unfolding in honor to the Sun, principle divinity Inca. • Gastronomy: Lawa (maize soup and beans), Kapchi Cheese (fresh cheese with red pepper, beans, Popes, onion and milk), Chicharrón with mote (fried meat of pig accompanied by maize mote), Chiriuchu (meat of hen or guinea pig roast). • Crafts: weaves in loom, painting ceramics, silver, retorts cuzqueña, wood fur shop, carvings, imagery and others. The District of San Blas concentrates artisan factories. Attractive tourist of Cuzco and the environs: Place of Arms of the city of Cuzco. Call in the days of the Incas Huacaypata or Plaza of the Guerrero, was scene of diverse events keys in the history of Cuzco. There the Inti Raymi or Fiesta of the Sun was celebrated every year; there also the conquest of Cuzco proclaimed Francisco Pizarro. With the arrival of the Spaniards, the place was surrounded by stone arcs, that today last. The Cathedral of the city of Cuzco. It was erected originally in which it was the old temple of Suntur Wasi (House of God), today Church of the Triumph. Later, its construction on the Palace of the Wiracocha Inca was become ordained. The facade and the interior are of Renaissance style. The interior is decorated with wood statures of cedar and alder. The wood choir, pulpit, workings in altars and furniture excel. Also, paintings of important artists and works in embossed silver. (Place of Arms. Visits: Ls 8:00 - 12: 00 and 14:00 - 17: 00). Church of the Company of Jesus /Amaru Field. The original church was constructed in 1571 on lands of the old Amarucancha, palace of Able the Huayna Inca. The present building is been from the reconstruction done to the original church, damaged by the 1650 earthquake, towards year 1688. The original plan and the facade are of baroque style, being this last one of vertical proportion. The cover is of type “altarpiece”, with median towers height and square section. The total of the construction is of stone ashlar masonry, worked with one refined and showy technique. The altarpieces of the church belong to the plateresco and churrigueresco baroque style. The greater altar emphasizes by its three bodies and their salomónicas columns, with religious paintings of arcángeles and other images. The wood pulpit shows a relief of Christ. A great number of linen cloths exists, between which it emphasizes the located one in sotacoro, that represents the marriage of Martin Garci'a de Loyola (nephew of San Ignacio de Loyola) with Clear Beatriz Coya (inheriting of the crown of the Incas). District of San Blas. One of the most colorful districts of Cuzco. Call District of the Craftsmen, shelters the most famous popular artists of the city, has narrow and lofty streets in which colonial constructions rise. Familiar lodgings exist that are offered to the tourists and they allow them to share the hospitality and friendship of the inhabitants, as well as its customs and meals. (Location: 4 pictures of the Place of Arms). Church of San Blas. The oldest parish of Cuzco, in the district of the craftsmen. It emphasizes the pulpit, admirable work of artistic carpentry of Spanish baroque style. (Small square San Blas. Visits: Ls 14:00 - 17: 30). Church and Convent of the Favor. - Founded on 1535 like a small church to take step in 1657 and 1680 to the mercedario temple of the present time. It emphasizes the tower of the church of a stonecutting of baroque style. In the sacristy its safekeeping in gold and precious stones keeps. (Location: Street Blankets s/n. Visits: Ls 8:00 - 12: 00 and 14:00 - 17: 00) Church and Convent of Santo Domingo/Koricancha. Koricancha (in quechua gold enclosure) was the main religious building of the Incas dedicated to the cult of the sun and whose inner walls, according to the cronistas, were covered by gold laminae. The Spanish construction of the Dominican Order on the temple Inca of Korikancha or Templo of the Sun became around year 1534. The convent owns a very valuable pinacoteca, contains a series of linen cloths corresponding to Spanish, racially mixed and indigenous painters of centuries XVII and XVIII. The series of linen cloths shows the invocation of the Virgin of the Rosary, Saints, Santas and Arcángeles. The cedar wood tables gold sea breams, represent religious passages. In the interior, are images of saints and employers of great veneration in Cuzco like Mr. de Luren, San Juan Masías, San Martin de Porras, Santa Rosa of Lima, Virgin of the Rosary and others. (Location: Av intersection. The Sun and Santo Domingo street. Visits: Ls 8:00 - 17: 00.) Church and Convent of Santa Catherine. The architecture corresponds to the last stages of the Renaissance, with presence of arcs of Roman style. (Location: Street Santa Narrow Catherine s/n. Visits: misa schedule). Acllawasi. House of the Virgins of the Sun. Place that served as house for the selected women. (Location: Loreto street s/n. Visits: schedule of misa of the Convent of Santa Catherine). Church and Convent of San Francisco. It emphasizes inside the convent a monumental linen cloth that measures 12 meters x 9 meters on the genealogy of the franciscan family, realized by Juan Espinoza of the Hunters. (Location: San Francisco place s/n. Visits: Ls 14:00 - 17: 00). Archiepiscopal palace. Present museum of religious art, virreinal construction of Arab influence raised on the bases of the palace of the sovereign Inca Rock. (Location: Intersection street Hatun Rumiyoc and Jr. Ironworks. Visits: Ls 8:00 - 11: 00 and 15:00 - 17: 30). Palace of the Admiral. It soothes of the museum Inca whom great variety of findings of the zone of the Cusco shelters, like ceramics, weaves, jewelry and momias. (Location: Street Costs of Admiral 153. Visits: Ls 8:00 - 17: 00). House of the Garcilaso Inca of the Fertile valley. Constructed on a platform Inca, it is a singular example of virreinal architecture. At present it is soothes of the Regional Historical Museum, is possible there to be appreciated paintings of the Cuzqueña School. (Location: Street Ices-cream dealer s/n. Visits: Ls 8:00 - 17: 30). Archaeological rest of Hatunrumiyoc (Stone of the 12 angles). It is a wall constructed with the type of stone “green diorite”, located in the outside of the given palace to Inca Rock. The wall is admirable by its polygonal architecture, whose in front it includes almost all the Hatunrumiyoc street. It is characterized because in center of the wall the stone of the twelve angles is located, famous by the perfect assembly of its corners and sides with other stones. This wall has superpositions of colonial and republican wall, and at the moment Museum of Art comprises of the Archiepiscopal Palace -. (Location: Hatunrumiyoc street s/n, 2 pictures of the Place of Arms). Archaeological complex of Sacsayhuamán. Located architectonic complex in an area that locks up 33 archaeological places, one of which is the well-known “Strength of Sacsayhuamán”. The racially mixed cronista Garcilaso Inca of the Fertile valley indicates that the work became in fifty years, beginning at the time of Yupanqui Inca. It also speaks of the existence of three towers that followed still on until after the arrival from the Spaniards Cuzco. The central tower, call Muyuj Marca (“round place”) was residence of the Incas; of his walls they hung gold plates and silver, it was connected through prepared underground passages in the form of labyrinth, and was equipped with a healthful water source abundant. The second tower was Paucamarca (“glad place”), and the third tower was Sallajmarca (“rough place”). The three towers were located in line straight in the top of the hill, and from its windows the city of Cuzco was descried. The Garcilaso Inca also mentions the existence of three access doors to the place: Uncle Punco (“door of the sandy ground”), Aqawana Puncu (in honor to one of the constructors of the place) and Wiraqocha Puncu (in honor of the God Wiracocha). Each 24 of June the celebration of Inti Raymi, or Celebration of the Sun, agrarian and religious character is celebrated in this park. (Location: 2 km to the northeast of the city of Cusco, 10 minutes in car approx). Archaeological complex of Qenko. Archaeological site constructed at the time Inca, around year 1500 d.C. The surrounding landscape to the monument has little vegetation with predominance of ichu. Qenko (“labyrinth” in quechua) is considered a cult place where ceremonies were realized in honor of the Sun, the Moon and the stars. (Location: 6 km to the northwest of the city of Cusco, 15 minutes in car approx) Archaeological complex of Pukapukara. This archaeological group presents/displays towards the western side a facade on a clear area to way of small place. Alongside opposed a building of considerable height rises whose main characteristic is its strategic location since it dominates all the surrounding territory. In addition numerous enclosures, inner places, zones of bath, aqueducts, watchtowers and ways exist, that form a complex of remarkable outline and suitable and functional city-planning organization. The historical tradition indicates that in pre-Hispanic times, when the Inca get ready to visit the baths of Tampumachay, the formidable retinue of soldiers and dancers remained in Pukapukara, that worked at the same time as quarter and inn (place of lodging and rest). (Location: 7 km to the northeast of the city of the Cusco, 30 minutes in car approx and 2 hours on foot). Archaeological complex of Tambomachay. Archaeological site Inca whose construction dates from around year 1500 d.C. He is closely tie to Pukapukara, and had a tie religious function to the importance of the water for the culture and Earth regeneration in the agricultural workings. The place has an approximated extension of average hectare, and the used constructive material is limestone stone, with equipments of polygonal style. (Location: 7 km to the northwest of the city of Cusco, 35 minutes in car, approx).

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