Regional Historical Museum of Cusco
Colonial mansion built atop Inca terraces, home to a chronicler born to a conquistador and an Inca princess.
This guide to the Regional Historical Museum of Cusco tells the story of the house itself, once the home of Spanish captain Sebastián Garcilaso de la Vega, built on Inca terraces with wealth from a royal labor grant. It follows his relationship with an Inca princess, Isabel Chimpu Ocllo, and their son Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, who was pushed aside when Sebastián married a Spanish noblewoman to protect his fortune. Ruled illegitimate and shut out of his father's estate, Gómez sailed for Spain after his father's death in 1559 to fight for what he believed was owed him, filing suit after suit over the rents his father once controlled in Peru. Listen for how a house built to secure one man's inheritance ended up shutting his own son out of it.
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