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Cusco Travel Guide

The original Inca city, said to have been founded in the eleventh century, was sacked by Pizarro in 1535. There are still remains, however, of the palace of the Incas, the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of the Virgins of the Sun.

About Cusco

Cusco covers an area of 156 sq. miles (402.8 square Km) and is estimated to have a population of 350,000 people being a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba Valley (Sacred Valley) of the Andes. It is the capital of the Cusco Region as well as the Cusco Province.

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Museo de Arte Religioso

On the corner of one of Cusco’s most extraordinary streets, Hatunrumiyoc, a pedestrian alleyway lined with magnificent Inca stonemasonry, the Museum of Religious Art is housed in a handsome colonial palace that previously belonged to the Archbishop of Cusco (before that, it was the site of the palace of Inca Roca and then the home of a Spanish marquis). Inside is a nice collection of colonial religious paintings, notable for the historical detail they convey, but the extravagant old house — with its impressive portal and Moorish-style doors, balcony, carved-cedar ceilings, stunning stained-glass windows, and small chapel — is pretty nearly the main draw.



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