About the Koricancha and Santo Domingo, Cusco, Peru:
With the Western Europe the culture of ancient Andean illustrate vividly in Cusco of Koricancha and Santo Domingo as the Qorickancha or Qoricancha which spelled also the sacred sites of combined. Atop sits of one culture the temple and the other encloses.
The history of the Koricancha and Santo Domingo:
In the Inca Empire the temple of most sumptuous at Koricancha is the Temple of the Sun of the Templo del Sol which crafted extraordinarily. Its confines within lived once the attendants of the priests and about 4,000 priests. For the Incas the as the main observatory of astronomical served also the Koricancha.
Naturalistic pantheon of the Inca deity of the most important of the sun to worship dedicated, in Quechua ‘courtyard of gold’ is the meaning for Koricancha of El Dorado legend straight out was a palace of glittering the temple complex. Its walls lining of gold panels to hundred in addition, there were figures of gold of life size, a sun disc of golden which is huge and altars of solid gold. The sun reflected the sun disc and in light the temple bathed. To sit was permitted the chieftain of Inca where only into a niche directly still shines the sun the solstice of summer during.
Natural gods of lesser for the worship also existed other shrines and temples, the rainbows, thunder, moon, lightning and Venus. Of animals and plants with the statues of life size of gold and silver once filled were the Temple of the Sun that face the terraces.
The conquest of the Spanish at the time for the Inca Atahualpa who was the captive to pay ransom was removed much of the wealth of the Koricancha, but in vain was paid the blood money. For the Dominican Convent of Santo Domingo as the foundations were used the stone walls of exquisite polished the gold of it emptied and the temple looted after the Spaniards, juxtaposition of architectural imperial colonial of most jarring of Cusco forming perhaps.
At the Koricancha and Santo Domingo what to see:
The Incas to the fine stonemasonry next of Santo Domingo the Baroque church, for this site this is the main attraction. After the earthquake of 1953 both buildings to recover in a restoration of ingenious, now has been removed of the cloister a large section, of the temple four original chambers revealing.
The skills of engineering and artistic the Inca exemplify the exquisite carving, retaining wall which is carved, trapezoidal doorways of earthquake proof and the masonry of mortarless. In the stone chambers of openings the perfect symmetry to see in the first chamber on the small platform stand. Of male and female blocks and together fit how they the concept of fascinating reveals displayed of Inca stones a series.
For the church the west end beneath the curved wall of 6 meters or 20 feet, from the street which is visible, by the earthquakes of repeated undamaged remains and the stonework of Inca the extant example of greatest is perhaps, is astounding the stones of the massive dark fit and curvature. For this site the history documents on Avenida El Sol with an entrance the hill just down a small museum.
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