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Friday, July 12, 2013
San Francisco Church (Tuesday)
Hey Everybody,
This is what we did Tuesday. We went down the street from our house to the San Francisco church (pic 1). We when there. There is a lot to tell about this place, but first i have to tell you about the little man who was our guide. He is the cutest little old man (pic 2&3) and he gave the best tour and knows so much.
So now about the church. It was built by the Spaniards who came to Peru. The building is built from stones made by the Incas. The Spaniards paid the Incas for the stones that they laid, this is why all over the floor are these makings that are the names of the Incans who laid them. The Incas didn't know how to write so the just made symbols but there was one Incan who did and he carved his name "Lorenzo" in his stones. Our Guide also told us about when the Spaniards came over they were converting the Incas, this means that most of the churches here are built on the sacred grounds of the Incas but was destroyed to make the Church. This is also why the Jesus on the cross here sometimes wear skirts because the Incas were trying to relate to the new religion.. You can see it everywhere in the church Jesus wearing a skirt.
In this museum we also saw the phenomenon where one person stands in the corner and the other in the opposite and if they whisper it can be heard like the person was standing right next to you. It was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This Church was filled with some of the most beautiful religious art work and also the biggest oil painting in South America (pic 4). This picture is the original 9X20 meters in total it has hundreds of faces. It is a family tree of the Franciscan family. It took the painters family 10 years to paint it him and his son finished it after he died.
There isn't enough great things to say about the church, all the intricate details that went in to all the ceiling tiles that were made by ceder trees that used to cover Cusco and now are not here and in all the churches.
Rose
Monday, July 8, 2013
Cuzco
Hey Everyone,
We got to Cuzco yesterday at about noon from riding a bus on a windy road for 14 hours. Not much fun.
But on a brighter note we went up in a tiny airplane to look at the Nazca lines. This is just a picture from the internet because we are at an internet cafe. The wifi at Hotel Frankenstein is down.
We started school this morning and I like my teacher the other girl in my class is 17 she is from oklahoma and in Cuzco alone . My teachers name is Magda and she is very nice. Tomorrow we aree going to the market.
Nothing super exciting has happened yet... but I´ll keep you posted when I can.
Love Rose
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Lima Art Museum
Italian Art Museum that we visited |
Downtown Lima traffic is crazy to newcomers! |
-Michele
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Houston We Have A Problem
Then we got to the Hotel Espana at 12:30 , it is amazing they have artwork every where. This
morning we went up to the 3rd floor and had breakfast, mom almost stepped
on a turtle and then we started looking around and saw a boy and a girl peacock
and 2 parrots that are very loud. We went up to the 4th floor to see
the baby turtle but we couldn't find him. All in all it was a good first day! :)
~Rosie
~Rosie
Plaza de Armas - Lima, Peru
Monday, June 24, 2013
Peru - July 2013
Rose and I will be traveling to Peru from July 2nd to July 30 in search of Machu Picchu! We will be spending 3 weeks doing Spanish language school in Cusco and volunteering for a youth program there. We are also going to see the Nazca lines and the floating cities in Lake Titicaca. Rose is super excited to get out of Central America, I think! Because Peru is in the southern hemisphere, it is winter there and Cusco will have highs of 70 and lows of about 35 because it's elevation is about 11000 feet above sea level (double that of Denver). We are getting our backpacks ready right now!
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