List of buildings and structures in Cusco Facts for Kids

View of Cusco in 1887.

This is a list of notable buildings in the city of Cusco, Peru. The city of Cusco is a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The list is ordered by the groundbreaking date of each building.

Pre-Columbian buildings
Colonial buildings
- Churches
- Other buildings
Republican buildings (post-colonial)
See also

Pre-Columbian buildings

They are listed with its names in the modern Quechua orthography.

Name	Image	Built	Civilization who built it	Location	ID
Much of the Colonial constructions used the city's Inca constructions in the walls as a base.		Most in the 15th century. The pre-columbian re-design of the city is the work of Sapa Inca Pachakutiq	Inca architecture	Cusco
Saqsaywaman		1100-early 16th century	Killke culture, Inca architecture	Two kilometers north of Cusco
Remains of the Qurikancha (temple of Inti -god Sun-)	(below and inside the Convent of Santo Domingo)	It was started to be built by the Ayarmacas (around 13th-14th centuries), remodelled by Sapa Inca Pachakutiq (15th century)	Inca architecture	Calle Arraniyoq	CUS-046
Base of the Muyuq Marka Tower (actually a temple of Inti -god Sun-)		It is part of the set of Saqsaywaman (idem)	Inca architecture	Two kilometers north of Cusco
Palace of Colcampata		it is the oldest place in the neighborhoods of Cuzco, where the primitive settlers lived. And very possibly it was also the place where Manco Cápac built his first palace or residence.	Inca architecture	the skirts of the sanctuary of Sacsayhuamán

Colonial buildings

Churches

The list is incomplete.

Name	Built	Architectural style	Architect(s)	Belonged to the religious order	Location	ID
Templo del Triunfo	1539-1664	Renaissance			Plaza de Armas (city's main square)	CUS-047
Church of San Blas	1544-1563 (its interior decor was built in the late 17th century)	(its extensively carved cedar pulpit is Churrigueresque)			Plazoleta de San Blas	CUS-037
Ruins of the Convent of San Agustín	1556-1645			Order of Saint Augustine	Corner of Ruinas, San Agustín and Santa Mónica streets. No. 140, Mz. 15.	CUS-079
Cusco Cathedral	1560-1654	Renaissance (exterior), Plateresque Gothic, Baroque (interior)	Spanish Juan Miguel de Veramendi, criollo Juan Correa, Spanish Miguel Gutiérrez Sencio		Plaza de Armas (city's main square)	CUS-028
Church of San Sebastián	1572-1799	Baroque (in 2016 a fire inside destroyed the altar, many sculptures, exceptional large paintings and diptychs, but not the most, which was saved)			San Sebastián District	CUS-088
Church of la Compañía de Jesús	1576-1668	Andean Baroque	Flemish Jean-Baptiste Gilles, Diego Martínez de Oviedo (criollo)	Society of Jesus	Plaza de Armas (city's main square)	CUS-030
Monastery of Santa Clara	1603-1650	Renaissance, Baroque	A Greek friar, his hispanized name was "Manuel Pablo"	Franciscan Poor Clare Missionary Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament	Calle Santa Clara	CUS-043
Church of San Francisco de Asís	1645-1652	Romanesque, Plateresque (most of its interior is original although there are also some interior reconstructed areas).		Franciscans	Plaza de San Francisco	CUS-039
Monastery of Santa Catalina de Siena	1651-1669			Dominican Nuns Order	Calle Santa Catalina Angosta	CUS-042
Basilica of La Merced	1651-1696	Baroque, Renaissance (exterior), Baroque, Neoclassical (interior)		Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy	Plazoleta Espinar, Calle Mantas 121	CUS-033
Church of San Cristóbal	second half of 17th century	Mannerism	Marcos Uscamayta (an inca indigenous)		Calle Don Bosco at the west end of the Plaza del Colcampata on the Sacsayhuamán Hill	CUS-038
Monastery of San José y Santa Teresa	1673-1676	Baroque	Diego Martínez de Oviedo (criollo)	Discalced Carmelites	Two blocks from the Plaza de Armas at the intersection of Siete Cuartones and Saphy streets.	CUS-044
Church and Seminary of Saint Anthony the Abbot	1678-1692 (church)	Andean Baroque			Plazoleta de las Nazarenas	CUS-036
Convent of Santo Domingo	1680-early 18th century	Baroque	several	Dominican Order	Calle Arraniyoq	CUS-046
Church of la Almudena	1683-1689	Baroque	Juan Tomás Tuyru Túpac (an inca indigenous)	Order of the Brothers of Bethlehem	Plazoleta de Almudena, Santiago	CUS-027
Church of San Pedro	1688-1699	Andean Baroque, Renaissance	Juan Tomas Tuyro Túpac (an inca indigenous)		Calle Cascaparo	CUS-040
Templo de la Sagrada Familia	1723-1735	Renaissance	Spanish Francisco Becerra			CUS-031
Central Chapel of Santo Roma	1802	Baroque (It is today used as the La Almudena cemetery room incinerator.)	Bishop Bartolomé María de las Heras		La Almudena General Cemetery	CUS-023

Other buildings

Name	Built	Architectural style	Location	ID
Balconies of Cusco	16th-19th centuries	Mudéjar, Baroque	Cusco
House of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (also today it is the Museo Histórico Regional del Cusco)	late 16th century	Andalusian architecture, Colonial Peruvian architecture, Inca architecture (the first floor of the front facade was remodelled in 1953 adding the arcades)	Calle Heladeros corner with calle Garcilaso	CUS-061
Archbishop's Palace of Cusco (now it is the Museo de Arte Religioso)	completed in the second half of the 17th century (and it was strongly decorated in the mid-20th century with ornates from other colonial buildings when the palace became the archbishop's palace)	Colonial Peruvian architecture, Inca architecture, Pre-Inca architecture	Calle Hatun Rumiyoq	CUS-053
Hospital of la Almudena	1689-late 18th century	Baroque (It was managed by the Order of the Brothers of Bethlehem)	Plazoleta de la Almudena, Santiago District	CUS-027
Hospital and Convent of San Juan de Dios	1615-1617	Renaissance (It was managed by the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God)	Calle Teatro, Calle Nueva	CUS-052