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CITY OF PERU

MONUMENTAL

gentleman

ealled Aldereto of the 17th Century.

has

a h1gh

decorated entrane e and i:.everal balconies. Note tbe súniptuous patio

with its don.ble pillers and splendid stairway.

the center of the

patio is a follilltain maide of stone, The panell-ed ceilings are very

interesting, as wel) -as

the decóratious

o;f the different rooms.

is today th\' home of the La

T;irró

frunily,

who

wil!

be pleased to

sqow to the visitor the various articles of interest.

In the small squ-are on one side of the Casa del Almirante there

111

another Colonial home called San Borja on account of having

been founded by the Virrei Prí11dpe de Esquilache, Francisco de

Borja, for the puq>ose of a Collegtl for the ed ucation of Indians

and natives of Incaic nobi1ity.

lived the

l~berator

don Simón

Bolívar when lle came to Cuzco aiter the Battle of Ayacucho and.

was authenticall.r eceive

·n the year 1825. T-he hou e, altho:ighi

of poor construction, co

many historie

~~·tic-les.

SAN

CRISTOBAL

IGLESIA PARROQUIAL). -

The old

suburb of Ccplccampa a.

di ta1rne

of arbout two hundred

feet

from the Plaza and to t-he north

.of

thfl city and at foot of Sacc–

saihuaimán, the ancient Incaic locality known as Cceilccaimpana,

residence of the first Inca Manco K coopac, of no

importance

historically. After the conq·uest this palace of San Cristobal was

occupied by the Inca Paullu., son of Huaina Kccápac as a reward

f.or

his faithf·ul services to the Spaniads.

This last mentioned

aiooo.m.panied Allll1agro on his journey to Chine, and Go.nzalo Pi–

zarro on his expedition to Voilcabamba to aipprechend in those moun–

tains the Inca Manico.

Paullu died in 1561 in the same

house.

Here was also prisoner the last Inca Vileabamiba (Thúpacw, .Ama.ru),

later beheaded in the

Pla~a

of Cuzco in 1572.

The present Iglesia was erected on the site formerly occupied

by the palaice of Ocolccampata by the Inca P-aullu

commtmio-