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th
Saint of
A
vila. There i a very beautiful socle
o
r
mo aic. The tabl ts, e pecially of the principal
a1Lar, are inter sting and the pulpit, like that of
La M rced, is a ,,
t
rk of art. Thi pulpit and the
tnbl
t
o
f
th principal altar ar
th "' ork of the
l\1ast r Sculptor Diego Martín z de Ovi do and
\V
\rt;
Ion
at the e pense of Bishop Molinedo,
gra1 d patron of Cuzco.
San o Domingo:
This monasterJ rises upon the ruins of the
famous Temple of the Sun or Inticancha.
History:
·
zco of the I cas wa distributed
in lots amo1
°·
th conqu81'or
in Oc-tober of 1534
and durin · h
u sequent
ears, all the superb
e
nstructions of
Inticanc a
fel1 to the lot of'
Juan Pizarro; but Pizarro, inspired by religious
f rvor
e ded
the
territory
to
the Dnminican
Fath r, Juan ele Olias, the founder of
thi~
Order,
\Yhich wa on of the first to come to Peru un ...
d r th
r
0
'ime of the illustrious l1ia.ther Valver–
de. Dúe to this gift, the Dominicans were
est~~
l
l
i.
11
l on the sam
si te V\ here y ars before the
r
re · of Nature,
such
as the Sun, had been
V\rorshi p· d.
rrh
Oatll lic
t
n11
le
' ~ as
erected on the same
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