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OUWO:

THE

HISTORICAL

AND

MONUMENTAL

CITY OF PERU

preferred to die by a.reher.y in Ollantaitamibo.

th~

same spot

will

be seen amongst other pruintin¡gs one of Garcilaso de la Vega.

In the mu&eum there are many rare works of art of the Incas,

ospecially primitive

textile; ailso

rare speciimens of

trephaned

skulls.

THE TEMPLE

OF LA COMP.A:A'IA DE JESUS:-

• •

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This is one of tñe

A!O

t n tere tin.g points of

uzco and of all

America. It wa.s erected

thé )?adres o

the Oompañía at the

beginning of t!he

1570

in t)le ipart then k,nown

as Amaru

Cancha, and the

ace o

uaina Kccápa

. The land was aequi–

red through the donations authórized 'by don Diego de Silva and

other rich Spanisb residents of Cuzco.

Fathers Gregorio IV and Clemente VIII authorized the cons–

trooti<m

of this Temiple, ifinished

aibout the saane time

as the

Cathedral, between tibe years

1581

and

1595.

The construetion fiMt

started was de.stroyed in the earthquake of

1650.

The J esuita

ian–

mediately

built

it. N<>twithsbnding

con!fliiets between

the

eccle&iastieal

and oiher authorities

it was finally completed

1671,

or ·approximately seventeen years before the .final ce>mpletion

of the Oathedral. Its graceful arquitectura and dec01Trution from

north to

south is n<>t to be equallel by any oth r in Cuzco. It would

appe.ar

t!ha.t the des•igner

of the faeade

inspirad by sorne

fr.eak o

f fancy in orna.mentation. To de cribe the work would be

impoosib1e. It only remains for the visitor to forro his own

opini.on

The Temple

is of on

e story, as is the greater part of t

he ibuilld–

ings of Cuzco.

Mu.ch

its artistioe aud ornaimental W?rk

h~s

disa.ppea.red, e

specially

as will be noted on the altar.s, Smce

lt~