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Cusco Peru
Por Directorio Cusco Publicado: 05/24/2009
Cusco also known as Qosqo or Cuzco, was the capital of the empire of Inca the found in center of the Inca Empire. Qosqo translates as “navel of the world” in Quecha the Inca language. Cusco city represents a cougar form. The form is today still obvious (like in the the map below). Cusco claims to be oldest the city continuously inhabited. It was inhabited for at least 2000 years. The rich history of Cusco is still evident today. When the Spaniard had conquered the city in 1534, they tore down all the inca temples and used the rocks to construct their churches and Spanish mansions. The majority of the stolen gold was sent the Spain. The remaining gold was used in the churches such as the cathedral of Cusco. Today, Cusco is probably the most famous tourist destination in Peru. Here you can explore the wealth of the empire Inca such as Machu Picchu and the sacred valley of the Incas. Although Cusco has much to offer. Colonial architecture and architecture of the Incas. Cusco City is in perfect harmony with nature, as the opinion of local peoples. Optimum example for this is the Coricancha temple, the old temple of the Inca who is now the Iglesia Santo Domingo. The same is true for the religion of the descendants of the Inca. When the majority of them are Christians who equally believe the god pray to the land, mountains and the sky. You can come the Cusco by bus, train or plain. I’ve tried the last two and recommend both options. Cusco is a very special place, has a lot of interesting scenery, specially when you have a window seat. Our airplane started to go down in a mountain scale, and following took a rocking wide turn, giving us a bit of scary bump head, but our pilot transformed directly into a mountain until we could see that he was directing for an opening between two mountains. At the end he goes down then continue to fly through a valley with mountains to the left and the right of the airplane. Since we arrive in the winter (is a rainy station) we we had an additional emotion of one more little unstable bump. Cusco has been situated in a closed valley virtually surrounded with mountains on all sides, as soon as for its seat in a erect position and it does not look at for it are the windows if you scared of the flight. We leave Cusco in the fabuloso Andean train of the explorer. He follows the linking to find on the stroll of the train (the hold on, read this article first). In the airport we were pegarados a time more and shuttled our hotel. Optimum method of the transport in the city is definitively for the taxi. The taxis are cheap and can be found in all part. Nenhumaa has left will be more easy to find a taxi. You only have that to look at them and you will stop. A stroll of the airport does not have to cost 10-20 more than soles. More interesting things on taxis can be found in my article of Rasp In its movement to the city center you will very pass probable the modern statue of Pachacutec, king of the Inca who was responsible for the great expansion of the empire of the Inca. Its name can be translated as “world-transforming” or the “transforming one of the world” that was literally what fêz. When you are in Cusco, you you must buy the ticket of the visitor of Cusco. Cost 70 soles, that are approximately 20 USD. It will give to it to the access to many places and museums Incan de Cusco. Proper Cusco is a pretty city. Had its position in the valley it receives more rain in the winter from what the sacred valley. It has many different ways as you can explore the city. You can go with one of many excursions, rent a taxi or start to explore it for the foot. A time that you become accustomed yourself to the height, does not have no reason not to explore the city for the foot, since that you will see much more. I around took some of the best photos to the floor in the city. The choice charges you entirely even so. You probably already wanted to know I where começ very the first shot in this page. I was wandering around in the city that literally crosses to all the way of Coricancha to the church of San Christobal where I took this I take off (and back). I had that to scale above some serious mountain to arise itself there. If you look at a map of Cusco, you she will see that the majority of the sights of the city is concentrated really around the square of Weapons and in the distance she is much more short of what that one of small walked mine. I admit that I really did not take the shot to the side of San Christobal since that you will have some roofs to obstruct its opinion. I am certain that you can appear for you are a time there. Square of Weapons You will have probably a hotel close to the square of Weapons. During times of the Inca this place was considered the center of the world. It was consequently naval of the given city the form cougar. It was two times greater than it is now. The ground of each one of the conquered areas was brought here and propagation for is. This age a symbol of the integration a little of what the conquest. The Inca never imps its religion in conquered worlds. During times of the Inca he had two sections of the square, the Huacaypata (place of the rips) and of the Cusipata (place of the happiness). The square of Weapons is been situated in the old place of Huacaypata. It was a place of military and religious cerimónias and executions. Today the square is ones of the prettiest south - plazas American never. The beds of flower, the banks of park and a wonderful water source of the green emerald invite it to seat low e to take a rest. But he certifys myself of that many ambulant salesmen and beggars do not jump it immediately. If you emit the first one moved away with one `determined In ' , you will not be desinsetado anymore. Small they around buy the artesanatos of the sales and squared books of the tourist, the indispensable provisions and other things. The restaurants flanqueiam the square to one or another side with somebody equipped external part with the tourists of I strip the grapes from the bunch of a menu. I know you I am polishing, but he believes that I if its `In are not determined sufficient it are hard to study the menus and comparing of them without constantly being spoken. Cathedral the construction in this magnificent building took on a century. It is not consequently no surprise that this is one of the most incredible cathedrals in the world. The photograph is not allowed unhappyly for inside, as soon as I cannot show examples of the interior. The altar is made of the continuous silver. An altar overlay gold was gliding original and the half finished the work is shown still, but due to hunger of Spain for the gold, it did not have sufficiently left of the precious metal. A time that the altar of the “replacement” was finished, met to be so wonderful, that the work in the altar of the gold estêve stopped. The main part of the cathedral is gigantic. He is hard to imagine how much the temples of the Inca had had that to be torn for low constructing this giant. (Including Sacsayhuaman) Of each side of the cathedral they are two lesser churches. The EL Triunfo and Iglesia Jesus y Maria is connected to the cathedral. The majority of groups of the tourist enters in cathedral with any one of them. The golden main altar of the Iglesia Jesus y Maria seems to want to supplant the altar of the main pipe of the cathedrals. The countless paintings of the famous school of Cusco are indicated in all part. Most famous it is probably a painting for Landmarks Zapata who describes the last supper. The main plate is shown as the guineapig. A gallery of paintings shows each only bishop of Cusco throughout History. The main bell of the cathedral is become fullfilled on 300 years old and made of a ton of gold, silver and bronze. The cathedral was constructed in the place of the palace of the Wiracocha Inca. There Compania de Jesus This church supplants really the cathedral, not in the size but in the beauty. This church of the Jesuit has façade the prettiest of all churches. But as the cathedral the two chapels flanqueiam this church. These are the Virgin of the chapel of Loreto and the chapel of Saint Ignatius de Loyola. The interior of the altar is cinzelado of the wood of the golden cedar and with gold. The main ship is connected to the two chapels and has a golden pulpit. After an earthquake in 1986 one another chapel was discovered under the main altar. Walls of the Inca If northeast you walked after the cathedral in calle Triumph, you will walk 12 celebrities after the folded rock. This is only one example of the incredible ability of the P0Ň: seedbeds of the Inca that so perfectly fit these walls without the use of the mortar. The walls are the leftovers of the Hatunrumiyoc palace. The wall is constructed of the green rock of the dorite. This age one of the temples the greaters. The temples had been situated more close for the main square, bigger they were and richer the inhabitants were. In still true principle that is today. On the foundations of the temple it is a colonial building of the style. If you risk through the city you you can find that much more examples of the Inca stonewalls as in calle Huaynapata and calle Loreto. One of the most impressive foundation and the ruin of the Inca is Coricancha. Coricancha (Koricancha) Coricancha or Koricancha or Qoricancha was of temple the most important and the most adored majority of the city. Coricancha is one another fine example of the artesanato of the Inca, but equally of the art of the Inca and the gold of the Inca. The walls of the entire temple had been covered with the fulled gold plates with gemstones. Windows was constructed to amplify the effect of the gold for reflections of the solar light. A rejoinder of the gold plates is in the exposition inside of the temple. When the Spaniard had arrived, had never seen any another similar thing before. To beat in the gold plates fêz to it the sound as if the entire wall was made of the gold, since that they had only known the gold plating. They could not imagine such richness.
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