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CUZCO:

THE

HISTORICAL

AND

MONUMENTAL

CITY OF PERU

Picchu. Vi-tcos is the present site of Rosaispata fr.onting the town

Pucyu.ra

of the ·district of Villcabamlba. Its remains discovered

by Bin.ghaim demonstrate this fact cloo.rly. They have

aJliJ.

the

chairacteristics of Incaic architectllil'e.

Next to these ruine of

:palaces, temples and houses

the Huaca of Yuraicc Rumi (white

rock), an en-0Tmous eut stone, at the base of whieh

a spring of

lWater. On the border.g of the stream are various seats carved in

'Stone. From this aMient tomb (acc0rding ío the complete details

()f P . .Calanc.lia)

there was expelled by Padre Diego Ortiz by

exorc:Lsm the evil spirit of the Incas. Here is allso found another

tomb caJLled :&ustacc H 'sppanan (which writers term :&usta Es–

paiñia). There are ak>o the sites of Chuquipafilpa where the Padrea

Agustinos Marcos García and Diego de Ortiz preached

Evang~lism,

Vitcos Inca 'J;itu, third o

f t e

Vhlocalbamba, died of fever.

In all this r

wi¡.

r.ds

Vilcabamba, the valleys of Sañ

Miguel and the Pampas of Espíritu Saillto wiM be observed the

~cts

of atiiocity

-0

he Conquerora Betanzos, Pand'O, Anaya,

Lo·

yofia, Maldonad

an:

ot hers in the perseeution and overpowering

t0f Thúpaiec Amaru, füe last Inca of ViiJ..caibrumJba.

To reach Rosaspata e Vitcos it

necessary to cross the Riio

Ldma separating the present town of Pucyw-a fr<>m it.

THE "TEMPLE OF CACHA:-

The ruins of this temple, con.structed accordin.g to hi.storieal

writers by Huira Ccocha in coonmemoration of the victory of the

Chchancas, are ne air the settlement caililed Sicuani, on the line of

tlle

stati011s San Paiblo and Tinta. From lf;he train a part of

it1