Church
Saint Peter the Apostle of Andahuaylillas
Plaza de armas s/n, Andahuaylillas 08210
Colonial parish church whose painted ceiling and murals mix Christian saints with native fruit, birds, and llamas.
This guide to Saint Peter the Apostle in Andahuaylillas, near Cusco, opens with a painted rope above the front door, one end tied to a man in a bedsheet, the other yanked by a devil paddling drunks toward hell. You'll hear about Luis de Riaño, the painter behind this so-called Sistine Chapel of the Andes, and about a local curaca drinking chicha in that canoe, a warning aimed at Quechua parishioners by parish priest Juan Pérez Bocanegra. Look up at native fruit, parrots and llamas woven into the ceiling alongside the saints.
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