Twelve Angled Stone
Twelve-sided green diorite block, millimeter-fitted without mortar into an Inca palace wall now framing a colonial doorway.
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This guide to the Twelve Angled Stone in Cusco opens with Pizarro's soldiers riding into the Inca capital in 1533, and the way the Spanish built their new city directly on top of the old one, cathedral over palace, convent over sun temple. It follows that pattern down Hatun Rumiyoc street, to the palace wall of Inca Roca, sixth ruler of Cusco, cut from hard green diorite more than six hundred years ago. You will hear why the colonists who tore down everything else around it left this one wall standing. Stand close enough to trace where Spanish plaster ends and Inca stone begins.
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