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In the upper rooms, especially in the guest

chan1ber, are handsome carved ceilings, di play–

in 0· busts of the noble ovvners of the hou

. It

called the "Admiral' ' beeause in the first half of

the 17th oentury

was owned by Admira! Fran–

cisco Aldrete Maldonado, one of the promincnt

ents of Cuzco; the street bounding his home

also named for him.

The house was built toW1ard the end of the

17th century and the interior consists of ·a spa–

cious court of honor of simple yet imposing

plan, encircley by galleries forming wide porti–

cos of colonial style; upon each column is a pair

of decorative bust. hen the house was destroy–

ed by t e ear qua e in 1

650 •the property pas–

sed to the

(]Q:un

ro P alta de

s fo ay. The

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~~onial

en-

the ceiling

of the i

erior rooms are t ose of .J1e Oount and

his wife, the Countess. Since that period · this

house has

known also as the House of the

Count,

and the li ttle

street which cross,es the

street called Admiral, toward Huainapata, is call–

ed the Street of the Count. The house is a histori–

cal gem. It belongs to the La Torre family.

The house of the Marquises of Buena Vista:

This house stands at the instergection of the

street of Hatunrumiyoc with Herraj e. The

acade

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