Cusco Cathedral
Colonial cathedral raised over an Inca palace, its walls quarried from a nearby dismantled fortress.
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This guide to Cusco Cathedral follows a crucifix carved around 1570 for a church the Spanish were still raising over the ruins of an Inca palace, its walls built partly from stone torn off the fortress of Sacsayhuaman above the city. It turns on a March night in 1650, when an earthquake tore through Cusco and terrified residents carried this same figure through the streets praying as the shaking eased. It traces how that night gave the statue its lasting name and its place in the city's Holy Monday procession. Look for him inside, where his congregation has stood for four centuries.
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