- Neighborhoods: The city
of the Cusco presents many tourist attractiveness among those
that find its urban disposition, which presents big peculiarities
for the overlapping of architectures and for its neighborhoods,
those that present characteristic different; we will mention
to the most representative:
- Barrio de San Blas
- Barrio de San Cristóbal
- Barrio de Santa Ana
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San Blas: Old Inca neighborhood of Tococachi
(" Hole of Salt"). Located to the north
of the city of the Cusco, where their location urban
tour around their traditional small square and their
austere colonial church. To the interior of this church
it is the famous Pulpit de San Blas, one of the samples
cusqueñas artistic more depurated of the XVII
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In general, this neighborhood is characterized by a homogeneous
urban appearance of narrow streets and mostly residential
architectural pattern. Recently this urban sector was intervened
with revitalizing works and" remodeling" urban,
with pleasant and coherent results in the first operation,
more didn't seize in second one.
- San Cristobal: Located
to the north of the city and in what was the neighborhood
of Kolkampata in the incanato. It runs off with in San Cristóbal's
temple giving in front of the small square of the same name.
This sector of the city is very attractive for the visual
landscapes and urban that she presents as well as for the
Inca remains that easily can find (double Inca platforms of
the Palace of Manco Capac).
- Santa Ana: Old Inca
neighborhood of Carmenca, located to the nor-west and in the
high part of the city. It is for this sector for where the
first Spaniards entered the Cusco in 1533. Basically Santa
Ana is recognized by its small square of colonial line and
where an isolated church of characteristic tower-steeple was
erected. The same as San Blas, in this neighborhood also highlights
characteristic urban and architectural homogeneous.
CALLES TIPICAS DEL CUSCO
Calle Loreto : Formed for walls of stone of the Aclla Wasi
and Amaru Cancha. Hatunrumiyoc: Inca Roca’ House, where
it is the famous stone of the twelve angles in the street
of the same name.
San Agustin: It was the main street in the Inca time, entrance
to the city coming from the Antisuyo.
