The cathedral of Cusco

The Spanish colonists have built this massive edifice in 1559 over the ruins of a palace that belonged to the Inca Viracocha, the last Inca emperor, in sign of complete domination of this new civilization on the ancient. If you see it from the bottom, the cathedral of Cusco and its two towers seems to throne on the Plaza de Armas. In reality, these are three juxtaposed churches: the cathedral strictly speaking, the church of Triumph and the church of Jesus Marie. The inside is well-decorated: small adjoining chapels, made of gold and silver, sculptures (which some of these are from famous artists), very representatives paintings (more than 400!)  of the School of Cusco… But the syncretism is omnipresent; with this incessant combination of Andean symbols and signs of the classical catholic religion. During religious celebrations, the cathedral puts its party gears and this gives to the edifice a kind of lightness, otherwise heavy of history and details. Anecdotally, the legend says that a tunnel would connect the cathedral with Sacsayhuaman site…