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AMERICAN PICTURES | ||
Cuzco/
Cusco/ Qosqo/ Peru
| For
a short account of Cuzco, the Inca capital and now a UNESCO World Heritage site
read |
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Church
of La Compania + Plaza de Armas | Calle
Hatunrumioc | Calle
Hatunrumioc | Calle
Hatunrumioc |
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Stone
of 12 corners | Calle
Hatunrumioc | The
Temple of the Sun + Church of Santo Domingo | The
Temple of the Sun + Church of Santo Domingo |
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Niche
in the Temple of the Sun | Reconstructed
Temple of Lightning | Reconstructed
Temple of the Moon | Excavations
below the sun temple and Avenida El Sol |
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A
waterchannnel/ fountain below the Temple of the Sun | The
Cathedral | Palace
of Inca Roq'a / Archbishop's palace | Calle
Loreto |
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Plaza
de Armas | The
House of the Serpents - the Beaterio of the Nazarenes | Wall
and niches at Colcampata | Niche
and lintel at Colcampata |
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Convent
of Santa Teresa on Inca foundations | Convent
of Santa Teresa on Inca foundations | Colonial
house and doorway within Inca walls/ Calle Zeta | The
house of GarciLaso de la Vega |
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Mist
over Cuzco | Mt.
Ausangate | Sacred
Valley of the Incas | Modern
depiction of life in Inca Cuzco with the golden punchão -sun disc |
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Seventeenth
century engraving | Seventeenth
century engraving | 19th
century map of Cuzco reveals the puma outline | Aerial
photograph of Cuzco |
