What to do and see in Cusco Region, Peru: The Best Sacred & Religious Sites

contamos con 2 Rocas Sagradas que fueron adoradas por los antepasados de Machupicchu. ambas rocas se encontraron a orillas del río Aguas Calientes y en la actualidad se exhiben en el Restaurante Ambassador House o Restaurant Las Rocas Sagradas de Machupicchu, el propietario Moisés Bendezú es el encargado de explicar las diferentes experiencias mágicas experimentadas con las Rocas Sagradas

This ruin was once the most important temple of the Incas, which was later used as a base for the Church of Santo Domingo when the Spanish conquered the city.

The museum focuses on the daily lives of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine: their spiritual practices, their teachings and duties, the training of novices, and their everyday tasks. Among the objects which form part of the collection are extraordinary works in the fields of painting, sculpture and the decorative arts from the viceroyalty and republican periods, as well as exquisite examples of liturgical vestments embroidered by the nuns, and works of religious folk art. The museum houses a particularly famous series of early 19th century mural paintings which adorns the Chapter House. The convent was built during the early 17th century on the site of the old Inca Akllawasi, or “house of the chosen women”. Vestiges of the pre-Hispanic structure can be seen to this day among the outer walls of the convent.

It is believed there was already a small chapel built on an Inca temple, which was used as an Indian Reduction at the end of the XVI century, building of the temple as we know it began in 1610, through the initiative of the parish priest Juan Perez de Bocanegra. In the interior are two beautifully painted organs that are considered the oldest in America. This majestic artistry is also reflected in the coffered ceiling of Mudejar influence, the mural paintings of Luis de Riano, paintings of the Cusquena School of Art, the polychromy of the ceilings and the triumphal arch that divides the presbytery and the main nave. Its baptistery retains the baptismal formula in Latin, Spanish, Quechua, Aymara and Puquina. The paintings which adorn the walls are framed by enormous mouldings of cedar wood and gold leaf.

It has a Renaissance style and retains more than beautiful 60 sculptures and 50 paintings of the Cusqueña School of Art, in addition to silverware, altarpieces and other movable goods. Built at the end of the XVI century and the beginning of the XVII century, the stunning murals of its interior cover the entirety of the ceiling and walls. The paintings, made by Tadeo Escalante, show the aftermath of human life, that is, the vision of death, the final judgment, glory and hell, defined by the union of Andean symbolism, its popular beliefs and colonial art.

Urcos, Canincunca gets its name from the narrow pass located en route from Cusco to Puno. Construction of the chapel began at the beginning of the XVII century and consists of a single nave, with inner walls which are richly decorated with murals and gold leaf ribbons. Many of them represent flowers, fruits, birds and symbols that are reminiscent of the pallais, geometric designs used by Andean weavers in their textiles.

This village is located above San Jerónimo, reachable by footpath or by road at an altitude of 4,000 meters. It´s the first stop for those making the pilgrimage to Señor de Huanca, the deity of Apu Pachatusan. A 17th century church, corrals for llamas and alpacas, and ceremonial irrigation canals are the main cultural features of Huacoto.