Grotesque Outside Ceramic Shop

San Blas Barrio

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May 24th 2006
For our final hour of lessons today, we went to the barrio of San Blas. It is an area full of beautiful, exceptionally narrow, old streets with buildings built up from Incan bases of perfectly aligned stones. Lily's husband, who is an artist of the Cusco school of religious art, used to own a shop there so she knows everyone! We saw a famous "grotesques" ceramic shop with a fabulous statue in the ... read more

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more