Wednesday, 2 April 2014

The "Coricancha temple"

Hello, today I'm going to talk about a place I visited in october of 2011. I'll talk about Cusco City. In 2011 I participated in a flolkloric music group called "Takhi" (in Aymara it means "road"), it was a student group. For this reason the Tarapaca university invited us to participate in a congress about identity and mullticultural education. 

I was very excited because it was my first time traveling alone, without my parents. In the city, I saw a lot of interesting things. For example I visited the "Coricancha temple" (the Temple of Sun), which was unbelievably big. The arquitecture and the context of the Temple were the most surprising aspects to me. It was a half Quechua's temple and half a Catholic church. The temple represented all I knew about the religion syncretism. I visited other places, but Coricancha was the best. 

In my opinion, Cusco city is a beautiful and curious place. In any street you walk you can find a piece of history.





2 comments:

  1. That's great! Cusco is one of the places I want to visit someday :)

    ReplyDelete
  2. looks beautiful! I hope go to Cusco someday!

    ReplyDelete