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Plan.

The temple has three naves with two rows of

columns. The convent is quadrangular and is

composed of a series of buildings which compríse

the principal cloister, the new and the ancient

novitiate , as well as the college which the order

mainta~ns .

These buildings cover more ground

than the other monasteries of Cuzco.

The facade is decorated soberly in plater–

esque style, and the interior cloisters of the con..–

vent also

ollow this style. .

The Convent.

most interes ing section is hat compris–

ing

serie

of galle ies of

the cloister of

hon or. It possesses an artisti

· .iimportance uni–

que in Ai-mer. ·ca.

This is the best specimen which Cuzco pos–

sesses of the colonial epoch and consists of high

and low galleries.

The works of art found in the lower galleries

are the following: arched ceilings, with nervures

ormed by symmetrical geometrical drawings.

Ori the other hand, those of the East and South

are artistically carved in cedar of plateresque

style.

In the Capitulary Chamber in the southern

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