Peru
  • Ceiling in a stairway of the Museo Inka
  • Calle Acoris
  • The church and convent of Santo Domingo, built atop the Inca walls of the temple of the sun, the most sacred spot in the Incan empire, sacked by the Spanish.
  • Cloisters of the Santo Domingo convent shown through the doorway of part of the former Inca temple in the interior. The church was destroyed in the earthquake of 1950, but was rebuilt.
  • Castellano streetname Loreto, Quecha name Intik
  • Silk embroidery hanging owned by Garsilaso de la Vega, son of a conquistador and an Inca princess, who spent his adult life in Spain and in his later years wrote histories of Incan culture.
  • Plaza Regocijo (also called Plaza Cusipata)
  • Cusco from Saqsaywaman, the head of the puma. The conflux of two rivers seen in the distance forms the tail; the city center is the body of the puma.
  • Church door knocker, Plaza de Armas
  • View down calle Ruinas toward the convent of Saint Catherine
  • Calle Maruri at Calle Saint Agustin
  • A contrast between Inca and modern stonework thrown up to complete the wall half destroyed when the city was sacked.
  • The view from my window at Hostal Anita, Cusco
  • Vultures in the garden behind the Hall of Justice. Vultures represented the gateway to the highest spiritual level of the Incas.
  • Folk costumes representing Spaniards, used in festival dances of the native people of the high-Andes Vilcabamba region, the last stand against the conquest. In paintings of these dances, these characters are shown being overpowered and flogged by dancers in Inca warrior costumes. A dancer in this costume, minus the red cross on the forehead, performs on the tourist train returning from Machupicchu. The cross also is left off knitted masks sold to tourists. Photo taken in the Museo de Arte popular.
  • Porcelain fountain in the center of the Plaza de Armas (main square) with the Cathedral in the background.
  • Peruvian sweets
  • City of Cusco
  • Cloisters of the Convent of Santo Domingo
Ceiling in a stairway of the Museo Inka
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Ceiling in a stairway of the Museo Inka
Ceiling in a stairway of the Museo Inka
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