Inca Q’osco
November 2, 2006
The Inca city of Q’osco was large even by our standards, with numerous grand palaces, public buildings and temples. Despite their hate for the un-Godly yet vastly superior architecture, the Spanish couldn’t destroy all of it and much is still highly visible as the bottom half of almost all colonial buildings. Inca temples now prop up grand baroque churches and Inca palaces were turned into the foundations of colonial mansions.
These photos attempt to give a quick tour.
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[...] stone work is what many people notice when visiting their ruins, or even just walking through the streets of Cusco. But how did they manage to carve so accurately, to a degree we can only just achieve today with [...]
[...] The curaca was a man the Spanish named Don Gonzalo Taulichusco. This local ruler was the yanacón of Mama Vilo, one of Huayna Capac’s (Father of Atahualpa, Huáscar and Manco) wives while his brother was yanacón to Huayna Capac himself and still resided in Q’osco. [...]
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[...] year later Francisco Pizarro himself arrived, fresh from conquering the city of Cusco. Following Inca trails from Cusco to Jauja, then over the mountains and along the Lurín valley he [...]