Regional Historical Museum Cusco

Regional Historical Museum  Located in the colonial house of the illustrious writer and chronicler from Cusco Garcilaso de la Vega Chimpuocllo, the building dates from the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century and was inhabited by Garcilaso until 1560, the year in which he definitively left for Spain. It rose on the Inca platforms that formed the Plaza Cusipata. Regarding the building, the typology shows an influence from the Andalusian civil building, developing from a central patio, a gallery of semicircular arches, stone balconies in the eastern bay and wooden balconies in the rest of the bays on the second level. It was intervened with restoration processes after the earthquakes of 1650, 1950 and 1986.