Peru

A Dominican cloistered convent founded on September 10, 1579, spanning roughly 20,000 square meters like a walled miniature city within Arequipa, with lanes named after Córdoba, Granada, and Sevilla and volcanic sillar stone walls painted terracotta red and cobalt blue. Closed to outsiders for nearly four centuries before opening to visitors in 1970 while the nuns continue to live in the northern sector, it is the centerpiece of the Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000.

UNESCO World Heritage Site (Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa, 2000)Calle Santa Catalina 301, Cercado de Arequipa, Arequipa (cách Plaza de Armas khoảng 600 mét)

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The supreme cosmological, astronomical, and royal ancestral sanctuary of the Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu) in the highland capital of Cusco at 3,400 meters in the Andes, monumentally rebuilt in the fifteenth century by the ninth Sapa Inca Pachacuti with mortarless polished andesite and diorite ashlar masonry once sheathed in pure gold to venerate the Sun God Inti and the mummified royal ancestors (Mallki), directly atop which the Dominican Order erected the Baroque Convent of Santo Domingo beginning in 1534.

UNESCO World Heritage Site (City of Cusco, inscribed in 1983, Ref. 273) and National Cultural Heritage Monument of the Republic of PeruPlazoleta de Santo Domingo (corner of Avenida El Sol and Calle Santo Domingo), Historic Centre of Cusco, 08002 Cusco, Republic of Peru

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The central cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Peru located on Avenida Santa Cruz in the coastal district of Miraflores in Lima, tracing its institutional roots to the earliest Anglican chaplaincy established in Lima in 1849 and the historic 1889 church on Calle Pacae, constructed on its present site between 1945 and 1948 in an English Neo-Gothic parish revival style adapted to coastal seismic engineering and elevated to cathedral rank in 1974.

Cathedral Church of the Anglican Diocese of Peru (Diocesis Anglicana del Peru) within the Anglican Province of South America and Historic Monument of Protestant Heritage in PeruAvenida Santa Cruz 491, Miraflores District, Lima 15074, Republic of Peru

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The crowning monumental ensemble of Spanish Vice-Regal architecture in the UNESCO World Heritage Historic Centre of Lima, rebuilt between 1657 and 1672 after the 1656 earthquake by Portuguese architect Constantino de Vasconcelos and master builder Manuel de Escobar, renowned for its carved stone Lima Baroque portal, earthquake-resistant quincha cane-and-plaster vaults, a 1625 Mudejar geometric cedar dome, cloisters lined with 1620 Seville azulejo tiles, a 25,000-volume antique library, and subterranean catacombs holding some 25,000 burials.

Papal Minor Basilica (proclaimed by Pope John XXIII on January 11, 1963) and UNESCO World Heritage Site (Historic Centre of Lima, inscribed in 1988 and extended in 1991, Ref. 500)Corner of Jiron Ancash and Jiron Lampa (Plazuela de San Francisco), Cercado de Lima, Lima 15001, Republic of Peru

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The metropolitan cathedral of the Archdiocese of Cusco commanding the eastern flank of the Plaza de Armas (ancient Inca Huacaypata) at 3,399 meters above sea level over the foundations of Viracocha Inca's palace of Kiswarkancha, constructed over 94 years from 1560 to 1654 using andesite blocks from Sacsayhuaman in a Renaissance hall-church plan with an Andean Baroque facade, celebrated for the revered crucifix of the Lord of the Earthquakes (Taytacha Temblores), a 1,250-kilogram silver altar, and Marcos Zapata's 1753 Last Supper featuring roasted Andean guinea pig.

Papal Minor Basilica (proclaimed by Pope Pius XI on February 8, 1928) and UNESCO World Heritage Site (City of Cusco, inscribed in 1983, Ref. 273)Eastern side of Plaza de Armas, Historic Centre of Cusco, 08002 Cusco, Republic of Peru

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