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CUZCO:

THE

HISTORICAL

AND

MONUMENT

CITY OF PERU

SANTA ANA (Pa.rochia.l Churc

h).- An

cient Incaie part cal ed

Oarmencca. This parroquia, which serv.ed for instruction to the

popwl

ation in

the higher northea t part of the city, has a poor

adobe

chur.ch

connecting, but it is famous for its possession

ctf

noted paintinig.g of the Corpus.

them

wi11

be noted the exaet

details of the life and the sumptuous .fiestas of the believers in

that period. They are, acoording to Cossio del Pomar, the most

charaicteristic paintingis of

the Ouzqueñan School,

a)IJd

their

documentary val'lle is immense, as in them wHl be noted the royal

insignre ·an.d the dress of the Incas, the robes •of the Indians, and

the

r~rooentation

of streets and temples, during the times of the

proceesion'S.

Two paintings of the seri·es have disappeared. As

these work.¡¡ ha:ve more of a historical than a religious value it

would seem more appropriate that thjly adorn the waills of the

University tha

the

~are wa~ls

tñe Iglesia de Santa Ana. The

o1d district

e cea was tbat on which t11e present pairroquia

is uow founded.

was to thi·s po}nt that the terrible Chancas

a.dvance.d bu.t

anq-ui hed in the tilJlle of Huira Ccpcha; here also

entered tlí Spama,r

of the Coniq.uest by a sm1aU street at the

eide of the temple towa1·ds .the river and even today known

a.a

the "Calle de la Ooruqui$;a ". Here -also -entered Thúpaic Amaru,

of Vilcabamba, seized by Arbieto, Loyola i Figueroa Rodríguez.

Fronting Santa Ana wil1 be seen the SaC'csaihu11ID1án

(forti<fied

hill).

SAN SEBASTIAN (Parochial Church) .- Four ki.lometers fro111

the city, to th-e southeai&t, is this se.ttlemen.t. Leaving Cuooo from

the Plaza de Rimaccpampa and taking a wide road will be seen at

the heginnh1g of the trip a traditioual stone eross which is said

to ha. e been placed there in memory of a Spanish caballlero who

wais kliled by another. Desoonding a little further is an old and

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