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ration

o.f

hi<S conversion

to Ohristianity.

was give:n

th name

of Cristóbal, after the Governor Vaca de , Oa.stro, God Father

i11

baptism, in t he year

1543.

1ww

s~rves

as parroquial quartera,

solll'ber and silent.

.A.11prooeh;ng the s,mall square a stQne walJl covered with moas

will be seen. Tibe wall is very irregular

iai

.form about two hundred

feet in length and more or less sixteen in height, and there

will

be noted eight niqu>Cs. Inside of the enclosure were the gardens

of the

pah.eo

t ho cight uiquoS>, according to .Markham, were for

the pur·pose of gnarding the royal insignias.

is more evident,

nowever, that thoy served as sentry boxes. It is r eeol'ded

as a

historical fact t hat when

aullu Inca died the1·e weTe

stationed

in thsse holes severa! guards,

The Spaniards unaware

of this

purposc, wero ·

fo~·lll

d that tlle purpo e of

lle gua1·ds was for the

protection of the

o ' ti e deceasea Pau1lu.

Near the present

enLrancc

to the templo.

will

be scen

four

drilled

sto31es, of

ut. the same

dimensioru¡, noied

for their

manner of pl a ·ng in 11e form of an irregular cross. Ordinarily

thia

w.as

killown as a place

of tortur.e and that thie head

of the

vfotim wa& placed in the J.ower hole and the legs in the two upper.

The en1trance to Ccolccampata is typically

lfü:a1c.

the interior

there remains but one wall, of

di.ne

design,

forty feet long

eight or ten feet high with

one door aud

one window.

evidently the remains

of a large gallery fronting

the gardens.

.gti.11

ta~ns

its original

na.Jl1e of Cco1'ooampata,

and is tho

prope.rty of don Lomellini. The parroquia ia called San Urist&bal

and was so termed on its construction in

1560.

The pTesent tsmple is modest in constrnetion. As in all

t~miples

in Cuzco tbere will be found many works of a,rt, and ahnost all of

them' dating

the 17 h Century.

eñor Oossío del Fomar

di'scover·ed an'Cl ·studiod the following paintings : "La ascensión de