The original chapel of San Blas was built in 1562 in the city of Cusco. After the March 31, 1650, earthquake, it became one of the most important temples and was decorated with great works of art.
The neighborhood is located on the same site as the old Inca neighborhood of T’oqokachi. Its architecture features a corridor plan with a Latin cross, a simple facade, and a belfry. It is kept inside a rich pictorial collection where the Cuzco author Fabián Pérez de Medina stands out on the life and miracles of San Blas, bishop martyr.
In this monument, some artistic values, such as a canvas of the resurrection of Lázaro, etc.
Cost of the entrance (Partial, only to this museum):
The Cathedral of San Blas is part of the Archbishop’s Religious Circuit. This circuit shows visitors the splendor of the viceroyalty of Cusco and the Peruvian world. It is a privileged exhibition of Cuzco art, encompassing architecture, painting, sculpture, carving, and music. It combines the most diverse styles from the third decade of the sixteenth century, starting from the transition style, then mannerism, traveling through tenebrism, the baroque, the rococo, and ending with the neoclassical.
These magnificent works of art, housed within Cusco’s most important religious monuments, were created by European, indigenous, and mestizo masters. They reflect the encounter and clash of two cultures, their symbiosis, a fusion of ideas, and a double codification of values.
The museums of the religious circuit are the Cathedral of Cusco, the Jesuit Company Temple, the Religious Art Museum, and the San Blas Temple.
The fee to access all the museums that make up the circuit:
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