San Francisco Church (Tuesday)

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 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