Iglesia de San Blas, Cusco

South side of San Blas Church on the square. Photo by Jack.


Front of San Blas Church. Photo by Jack.

Location map and aerial view of San Blas Church. For a larger view,
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On the little square in the San Blas neighborhood of Cusco is the Iglesia de San Blas, a simple adobe church with one of the jewels of colonial art in the Americas.

The pulpit of San Blas, arguably Latin America's most ornate, is an intricately carved 17th-century cedar pulpit hewn from a single tree trunk and dominated by the triumphant figure of Christ.

Sources

1. Frommer's Peru, 2nd edition.

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