Plazoleta de las Nazarenas
Glass-and-steel dining cube set inside a five-hundred-year-old colonial courtyard museum.
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This guide to the Plazoleta de las Nazarenas in Cusco opens with a Peruvian president cutting a ribbon here in June 2003, declaring the country was showing the world its wealth. It traces the site five centuries back to a possible Inca ceremonial courtyard, through a conquistador's colonial rebuild, a convent, a noble family's estate, a school, and decades as a crumbling ruin, before a bank bought the property in 1981. You'll follow how two decades of restoration turned rubble back into something the city could use again.
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