List of buildings and structures in Cusco

This is a list of notable buildings in the city of Cusco, Peru. The city of Cusco is a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The list is ordered by the groundbreaking date of each building.

View of Cusco in 1887.

Pre-Columbian buildings

They are listed with its names in the modern Quechua orthography.

Name	Image	Built	Civilization who built it	Source	Location	ID
Much of the Colonial constructions used the city's Inca constructions as a base.		Most in the 15th century. The pre-columbian re-design of the city (through a remodeling) is the work of Sapa Inca Pachakutiq	Inca architecture	[1]	Cusco
Saqsaywaman		1100-early 16th century	Killke culture, Inca architecture	[2][3][4]	Two kilometers north of Cusco
Remains of the Qurikancha (temple of Inti -god Sun-)	(below and inside the Convent of Santo Domingo)	It was started to be built by the Ayarmacas (around 13th-14th centuries), remodelled by Sapa Inca Pachakutiq (15th century)	Inca architecture	[5]	Calle Arraniyoq	CUS-046
Base of the Muyuq Marka Tower (actually a temple of Inti -god Sun-)		It is part of the set of Saqsaywaman (idem)	Inca architecture	[6][7]	Two kilometers north of Cusco

Colonial buildings

Churches

The list is incomplete.

Name	Image	Built	Architectural style	Architect(s)	Belonged to the religious order	Source	Location	ID
Templo del Triunfo		1539-1664	Renaissance			[8]	Plaza de Armas (city's main square)	CUS-047
Church of San Blas		1544-1563 (its interior decor was built in the late 17th century)	(its extensively carved cedar pulpit is Churrigueresque)			[9][10]	Plazoleta de San Blas	CUS-037
Ruins of the Convent of San Agustín		1556-1645			Order of Saint Augustine	[11][12]	Corner of Ruinas, San Agustín and Santa Mónica streets. No. 140, Mz. 15.	CUS-079
Cusco Cathedral		1560-1654	Renaissance (exterior), Plateresque Gothic, Baroque (interior)	Spanish Juan Miguel de Veramendi, criollo Juan Correa, Spanish Miguel Gutiérrez Sencio		[8]	Plaza de Armas (city's main square)	CUS-028
Church of San Sebastián		1572-1799	Baroque (in 2016 a fire inside destroyed the altar, many sculptures, exceptional large paintings and diptychs, but not the most, which was saved)			[13][14]	San Sebastián District	CUS-088
Church of la Compañía de Jesús		1576-1668	Andean Baroque	Flemish Jean-Baptiste Gilles, Diego Martínez de Oviedo (criollo)	Society of Jesus	[15][16]	Plaza de Armas (city's main square)	CUS-030
Monastery of Santa Clara		1603-1650	Renaissance, Baroque	A Greek friar, his hispanized name was "Manuel Pablo"	Franciscan Poor Clare Missionary Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament	[17][18]	Calle Santa Clara	CUS-043
Church of San Francisco de Asís		1645-1652	Romanesque, Plateresque (most of its interior is original although there are also some interior reconstructed areas).		Franciscans	[19][8][20]	Plaza de San Francisco	CUS-039
Monastery of Santa Catalina de Siena		1651-1669			Dominican Nuns Order	[21]	Calle Santa Catalina Angosta	CUS-042
Basilica of La Merced		1651-1696	Baroque, Renaissance (exterior), Baroque, Neoclassical (interior)		Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy	[22][23]	Plazoleta Espinar, Calle Mantas 121	CUS-033
Church of San Cristóbal		second half of 17th century	Mannerism	Marcos Uscamayta (an inca indigenous)		[24]	Calle Don Bosco at the west end of the Plaza del Colcampata on the Sacsayhuamán Hill	CUS-038
Monastery of San José y Santa Teresa		1673-1676	Baroque	Diego Martínez de Oviedo (criollo)	Discalced Carmelites	[8][25]	Two blocks from the Plaza de Armas at the intersection of Siete Cuartones and Saphy streets.	CUS-044
Church and Seminary of Saint Anthony the Abbot		1678-1692 (church)	Andean Baroque			[26][27]	Plazoleta de las Nazarenas	CUS-036
Convent of Santo Domingo		1680-early 18th century	Baroque	several	Dominican Order	[8][28]	Calle Arraniyoq	CUS-046
Church of la Almudena		1683-1689	Baroque	Juan Tomás Tuyru Túpac (an inca indigenous)	Order of the Brothers of Bethlehem	[29]	Plazoleta de Almudena, Santiago	CUS-027
Church of San Pedro		1688-1699	Andean Baroque, Renaissance	Juan Tomas Tuyro Túpac (an inca indigenous)		[30][8]	Calle Cascaparo	CUS-040
Templo de la Sagrada Familia		1723-1735	Renaissance	Spanish Francisco Becerra		[31]		CUS-031
Central Chapel of Santo Roma		1802	Baroque (It is today used as the La Almudena cemetery room incinerator.)	Bishop Bartolomé María de las Heras		[32][33]	La Almudena General Cemetery	CUS-023

Other buildings

Name	Image	Built	Architectural style	Architect(s)	Source	Location	ID
Balconies of Cusco		16th-19th centuries	Mudéjar, Baroque		[34]	Cusco
House of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (also today it is the Museo Histórico Regional del Cusco)		late 16th century	Andalusian architecture, Colonial Peruvian architecture, Inca architecture (the first floor of the front facade was remodelled in 1953 adding the arcades)		[35][36]	Calle Heladeros corner with calle Garcilaso	CUS-061
Archbishop's Palace of Cusco (now it is the Museo de Arte Religioso)		completed in the second half of the 17th century (and it was strongly decorated in the mid-20th century with ornates from other colonial buildings when the palace became the archbishop's palace)	Colonial Peruvian architecture, Inca architecture, Pre-Inca architecture		[37]	Calle Hatun Rumiyoq	CUS-053
Hospital of la Almudena		1689-late 18th century	Baroque (It was managed by the Order of the Brothers of Bethlehem)		[37]	Plazoleta de la Almudena, Santiago District	CUS-027
Hospital and Convent of San Juan de Dios		1615-1617	Renaissance (It was managed by the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God)		[38]	Calle Teatro, Calle Nueva	CUS-052

Republican buildings (post-colonial)

Name	Image	Built	Architectural style	Architect(s)	Source	Location	ID
La Almudena General Cemetery	(the entrance is the left building)	1846-1850	Baroque, Neoclassical		[39][32]	Plazoleta de la Almudena, Santiago	CUS-023

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