Plaza de Armas
Colonial arcaded square ringed by porticos once given over to bakers, tailors and cloth merchants.
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This guide to the Plaza de Armas in Cusco starts under the colonial arcade that still carries two rival nicknames, and traces the everyday trades that once lined its arches: bakers, tailors, cloth merchants, and a woman remembered for her sweets at Corpus Christi. It follows one ordinary morning when a Spanish official named Benito Suarez Carbajal crossed paths with a Franciscan friar over a simple request for bread, a small dispute local memory never let go of. Stand under the arcade nearest the cathedral to feel where the old marketplace once pressed right up against the stone.
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