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CITY OF PERO
Street and Incaic Palaca. -
On
ascendin.g to or
descending
lrom
San Bias, between the CaiJ,Je del Triunfo and the slope o1' the
Parroquia will be found
a typical and aut hentic
Incair.
street.
Note the walls .on both sides P'hantastically decorated,
and ita
1to11es almost imperceptib'ly joined. At a.bout the center of 11he street
11·ill
be noted a stone with twelve corners -
the largest stone in
the w:ills. These remains are of the former palace of Sancbi Rocca,
the Second Inca of Cuzco. On the corne.r
.of t he street,
facing
towards San Blas
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will be seen a house (rthe property of Sr. Vidal
Olivera) in which will be foull'll walls of Incaic decoration similar
to th08e of the ex•terior. Sr. Olivera 1las in the bouse many Incaic
ancl Co'1onial works '"hich the visito'r may exaimine.
Choqqe Chaca. (Br· d e of G0ld) . -
On
thi~
sani.e st1·eet
and
towards the
nor~h
th ·r
· an
th~r
\Vide srt;:eet
conn~cting,
through
~he
center
oi
wh1ch runs a canal. Thrée squaroo from the co·nnection
und from an alleyway seeu
tQ
the left will be fo und
a low and
unprt>tcntious entran ce,
i;
ieally
Incaic in ali its
decoratious.
In the upper part of fliis suburb
'T!·j]]
be seen sm:ill streets, now
abandonad and de olate but reminiscent of their past history.
The Seminary of San Antonio. -
To the rear of the Cathcdrul
is
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small squaro,
formerly known as Amaru Kccata.
~his
on
accou nt of the many ñgures representing
serpents doooratmg thc
wall
in the vicmity.
It
is
now
called "Parque Billinghurst".
~'ronting
this square
is the Seminario de San Antonio Abad,
tounded by the Bishop La. Raya in 1698. The entrance is severo
but eloyant; the patios are bnilt in double columns of stone. In the
rolleg~
itself <therc is little of a.ttraction
exc~t
the mo de
of
~unstruetion.
The temple to the north of the College
has lfinely
gilt
altars and many notable painting . The following pa.intinge
of Dr. Antonio
Yald~z
Oyardo (known as the priest antist) are of
lllter~st
· "
'·m
Antonio íliscutiendo con los Arrianos" and "La
\'irgen de
S~n
Antonio
á
an Pedro Pablo el Ermitatío".
In
the
ltar Mayor will be seen drawings of San Ambrosio, San Grega-
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