RELIGIOUS CIRCUIT: Price: $20.00 for person.
EXITS: Every Day.
DURATION: 5 hours (2 schedules: 8:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. or 1:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.)
PERIOD: The Whole Year.
ITINERARY :
This circuit lasts half-day approximately, it can be in the morning or in the afternoon, we will visit the most important temples that he/she has Cusco, our journey it begins from those 8:00 a.m. and we will observe the different types of constructions in the journey.
1) THE CATHEDRAL OF CUSCO
The construction of this cathedral monument took 132 years, receiving its final consecration in 1669. Nowadays, transformed into the icon of the city, this superb temple built in an area of more than 4000 m2, he/she keeps in their interior 11 chapels, 1 sacristy, 1 room to surrender, 7 altarpieces, 1 low choir entirely carved in wood of cedar cuzqueña, it works executed by an indigenous teacher and a Spanish teacher, being the ideological mentor the cathedral canon Aryan Diego of the Sow, it also possesses more than of 300 paintings as well as diverse sizes and sculptures.
2) THE COMPANY DE JESÚS
Jesús Company, the universal congregation been founded by San Ignacio of Loyola, developed a pastoral intense activity in Cusco.
An expression of it is it the majestic temple of the Order Jesuit, in full square of weapons of the City Imperial, beside the Basilica Cathedral.
3) PALACE ARZOBISPAL
The city of prehispanic Cusco, with an urban plant and surprising urbanism, possessed courts (neighborhoods) so much administrative, social and religious, inside this planning they were the courts that corresponded to the habitations of its rulers (Inca) it is this way that at a very short distance of the Quechua old square, today square of weapons of this city, in the sector of the old one in route to (Ñan) the antisuyo, the habitation (called palace) of Inka ran off with Roqa, construction carried out in blocks of green diorita of polygonal style of blocks semiciclópeos, place where he/she is located the famous stone of the twelve angles.
4) SAN BLAS
It is the parish but old of Cusco built in the old Inca neighborhood of "toqokachi" in the year of 1559, the quality but jumping of this tourist enclosure it is that continuous a spectacular octopus carved in cedar wood that is the but surprising artistic work of churrigueresque Spanish style. Their elaboration is attributed to indigenous hands.