Interior view of the temple and convent of Santo Domingo, Cuzco, Peru. Built where the Incas centuries before built their temple of the sun, Qoricancha, one of the most important sacred archaeological complexes of that people. The Spaniards took advantage of the foundation of Inca stones to built the Convent and Church of Santo Domingo over it as other colonial buildings. The great earthquake of 1950 destroyed the construction of the Dominican Fathers and exposed the Temple of the Sun, which firmly resisted the earthquake, thanks to Inca construction techniques. Here is exposed a colonial wall decoration, XVII century plaster pigment. Many of the Inca constructions of the Qorikancha were covered on the inside with plaster and wall paintings, of which only this paint fragment survives.
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