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    Church and Convent of San Francisco (Saint Francis)

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    The Franciscan Order arrived in Cusco in the early years of the Spanish conquest. They were originally located in various areas of the city before settling in their present location in San Francisco Square in 1549. While the architect who designed the current church building is unknown, it is known that Francisco Dominguez Chavez y Arellano, a Cusco architect, finished its construction. The church has a relatively simple structure with one tower and two gates, and is made of andesite from pre-Hispanic buildings. Its original artworks were destroyed by a priest who modernized the church with coarse neoclassical plaster artworks. The convent cloister is the oldest in the city and has a renaissance style

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    The Franciscan Order arrived in Cusco in the early years of the Spanish conquest. They were originally located in various areas of the city before settling in their present location in San Francisco Square in 1549. While the architect who designed the current church building is unknown, it is known that Francisco Dominguez Chavez y Arellano, a Cusco architect, finished its construction. The church has a relatively simple structure with one tower and two gates, and is made of andesite from pre-Hispanic buildings. Its original artworks were destroyed by a priest who modernized the church with coarse neoclassical plaster artworks. The convent cloister is the oldest in the city and has a renaissance style

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    The Franciscan Order arrived in Cusco in the early years of the Spanish conquest. They were originally located in various areas of the city before settling in their present location in San Francisco Square in 1549. While the architect who designed the current church building is unknown, it is known that Francisco Dominguez Chavez y Arellano, a Cusco architect, finished its construction. The church has a relatively simple structure with one tower and two gates, and is made of andesite from pre-Hispanic buildings. Its original artworks were destroyed by a priest who modernized the church with coarse neoclassical plaster artworks. The convent cloister is the oldest in the city and has a renaissance style

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    Church and Convent of San Francisco (Saint Francis)

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    The Franciscan Order arrived in Cusco in the early years of the Spanish conquest. They were originally located in various areas of the city before settling in their present location in San Francisco Square in 1549. While the architect who designed the current church building is unknown, it is known that Francisco Dominguez Chavez y Arellano, a Cusco architect, finished its construction. The church has a relatively simple structure with one tower and two gates, and is made of andesite from pre-Hispanic buildings. Its original artworks were destroyed by a priest who modernized the church with coarse neoclassical plaster artworks. The convent cloister is the oldest in the city and has a renaissance style

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    CHURCH AND CONVENT OF SAN FRANCISCO

    (SAINT FRANCIS)

    The Franciscan Order was founded by Saint Francis native from Assisi in present-day Italy,
    toward the beginning of XIII century. The Franciscans arrived to Qosqo by the first years of the
    conquest and were located by the San Blas district, later in the Nazarenas Square, in the
    ancient Qasana palace belonging to Inka Pachakuteq in the Main Square and finally in their
    present-day location over the San Francisco Square toward 1549. It is not known who the
    architect was that designed the present-time building; however, it is known that Francisco
    Dominguez Chavez y Arellano, a Cusquenian architect who worked as the chief mason
    finished it. The structure of the church is relatively simple and has just one tower and two
    gates, but it is solid and made with andesites from pre-Hispanic buildings. Its original artworks
    were destroyed by a priest that "modernized" the church with coarse neoclassical plastermade artworks. Its Major Altar is neoclassical and made in plaster having a Saint Francis of
    Assisi effigy in the central part and above it is the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception. There
    are also 11 other minor altarpieces, all of them made in plaster; it has an ancient cedar wood
    pulpit too.
    Its convent cloister is the oldest in the city and has a renaissance style with diverse influences.
    It has an impressive ceiling decorated with painted panels. Over here is an enormous canvas
    that is possibly the biggest in the continent measuring about 12 mts. (39 ft.) high and 9 mts.
    (30 ft.) wide; it was painted by Juan Espinoza de los Monteros toward 1699. That painting
    represents 12 branches of the Franciscan order containing 683 personages, 224 coats of arms
    and 203 biography legends. What is also impressive is the church's high choir that was carved
    in local cedar wood by Franciscans Fray Luis Montes, Isidro Fernandez Inka and Antonio de
    Paz, by 1652. That choir contains images of 93 Saints of the Catholic Church; its lectern is
    also very nice, and has an imposing German organ. More over, there are many more canvases
    in the different rooms and cloisters; almost all of them anonymous from the Cusquenian
    School of painting.

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