Cloister of the convent of Santo Domingo, this convent was built on the Inca temple of Coricancha

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Coricancha was one of the most famous temples in the city of Cuzco in Peru. The current temple ruins Sun or Coricancha, are preserved in the church of Santo Domingo, which was built on the Inca temple. The enclosure of gold; as it was known, was a sacred place to worship surrendered to the maximum Inca god Inti (Sun). The stones that make up the temple have a slight padding on the sides, expressing the aesthetics of the building in the Inca Empire. Formerly there was no triangular atrium that serves as the entrance to the colonial church and the wall turned at right angles to the Ahuacpinta street, which still retains a section of the original wall of nearly sixty meters long.

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Size: 4896px × 3264px
Location: Cuzco, Peru, South America
Photo credit: © Nacho Calonge / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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