{"id":12660,"date":"2021-07-15T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.perurail.com\/?p=12660"},"modified":"2025-02-17T17:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T22:23:15","slug":"plaza-de-armas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perurail.com\/es\/blog\/plaza-de-armas\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaza de Armas de Cusco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>La&nbsp;<strong>Plaza de Armas de Cusco<\/strong>&nbsp;es un deleite para la vista de cualquier visitante que la conozca por primera vez. Sus construcciones de arquitectura colonial tienen toda una historia por contar y las actividades a realizar en la plaza seguro que te encantar\u00e1n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00bfTe animas a dar un paseo? \u00a1Te contamos todo al respecto!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Historia de la Plaza de Armas de Cusco<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Seg\u00fan los escritos del Inca Garcilazo De La Vega, Manco C\u00e1pac y Mama Ocllo fueron los fundadores de la ciudad del Cusco. Se dice que el&nbsp;<strong>Dios Inti<\/strong>, padre de Manco C\u00e1pac, les encomend\u00f3 la gran misi\u00f3n de iniciar una campa\u00f1a de aprendizaje y ense\u00f1anza con otras personas y as\u00ed formar el<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perurail.com\/es\/blog\/la-historia-del-tahuantinsuyo-el-imperio-mas-importante-de-sudamerica\/\">&nbsp;Imperio Inca<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El&nbsp;<strong>Dios Inti<\/strong>&nbsp;les dio una vara de oro y les dijo que \u201cformar\u00e1n el Imperio de los Incas donde la vara se hunda\u201d. Recorrieron muchos kil\u00f3metros hasta que la vara se hundi\u00f3, de repente, cuando pasaban por un pantano. Dicho pantano ahora es conocido como la&nbsp;<strong>Plaza de Armas de Cusco<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Posteriormente, el&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perurail.com\/es\/blog\/los-incas-del-tahuantinsuyo-el-imperio-mas-grande-de-sudamerica\/\">Inca Sinchi Roca<\/a><\/strong>, sucesor de Manco C\u00e1pac, orden\u00f3 el secado del pantano para erigir lo que ser\u00eda&nbsp;<strong>el centro cultural, religioso y administrativo del Imperio Inca<\/strong>. Dichas obras fueron finalizadas por el emperador Pachac\u00fatec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">La Plaza de Armas en el per\u00edodo de los Incas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>En la \u00e9poca del Imperio incaico, la plaza principal del Cusco era uno de los principales centros de reuni\u00f3n, el cual se dividi\u00f3 en dos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Aucaypata, Huacaypata o Huacapata:<\/strong>&nbsp;era el lugar que el inca utilizaba para reuniones importantes. Adem\u00e1s, se dice que este apartado de la plaza fue utilizado como campo de concentraci\u00f3n de batallas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cusipata:<\/strong>&nbsp;es la parte que estaba al otro lado del R\u00edo Saphi, el cual divid\u00eda a estas dos plazas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">La Plaza de Armas en el per\u00edodo colonial<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Los edificios incas fueron reemplazados por iglesias y casonas coloniales. Por ejemplo, se reemplaz\u00f3 el&nbsp;<strong>palacio Huayna C\u00e1pac<\/strong>&nbsp;por la Iglesia de la Compa\u00f1\u00eda de Jes\u00fas, la Catedral reemplaz\u00f3 al&nbsp;<strong>palacio de Wiracocha<\/strong>, y el&nbsp;<strong>Acllawasi<\/strong>&nbsp;fue reemplazado por el convento de Santa Catalina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">La Plaza de Armas en la actualidad<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>La&nbsp;<strong>Plaza de Armas de Cusco<\/strong>&nbsp;a\u00fan mantiene<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perurail.com\/es\/blog\/ciudad-del-cusco-mezcla-de-arquitectura-inca-y-europea\/\">&nbsp;arquitectura del per\u00edodo inca<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;y colonial, ya que, al d\u00eda de hoy, se conservan todas las construcciones coloniales, pues los muros incas sirvieron como cimientos para dichas construcciones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00bfQu\u00e9 hacer en la Plaza de Armas del Cusco?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>La plaza es, por supuesto, un destino tur\u00edstico como muchos otros. Podremos encontrar cualquier variedad de restaurantes, bares, discotecas, museos, tiendas de artesan\u00edas, locales de comida r\u00e1pida y m\u00e1s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Durante el a\u00f1o, se celebran fiestas cusque\u00f1as de mucha importancia y de gran tradici\u00f3n como lo son: el&nbsp;<strong>Corpus Christi<\/strong>&nbsp;(sin fecha exacta, pero suele ser a finales de mayo o inicios de junio) y el&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perurail.com\/es\/blog\/inti-raymi-una-celebracion-ancestral-en-el-corazon-de-cusco\/\">Inti Raymi<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;o&nbsp;<strong>Festival del Sol<\/strong>&nbsp;(24 de junio).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adem\u00e1s, puedes encontrar servicios tur\u00edsticos desde la misma plaza hasta la Monta\u00f1a 7 Colores, la Laguna Humantay, Machu Picchu, el Valle Sagrado de los Incas, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Como puedes apreciar, la&nbsp;<strong>Plaza de Armas de Cusco<\/strong>&nbsp;es importante para cada per\u00edodo cultural por el cual atraves\u00f3, siempre cumpliendo alg\u00fan prop\u00f3sito en particular: celebraciones, reuniones, comercio, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00bfDeseas conocer m\u00e1s sobre la antigua capital del Tahuantinsuyo? Entonces complementa tu\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perurail.com\/es\/blog\/vive-la-cultura-andina-rumbo-a-machu-picchu\/\">viaje cultural<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0a bordo del tren\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perurail.com\/es\/trenes\/vistadome\/\">PeruRail Vistadome<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a1<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/book.perurail.com\/?tipoIdioma=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adquiere ya tus tickets de tren<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La&nbsp;Plaza de Armas de Cusco&nbsp;es un deleite para la vista de cualquier visitante que la conozca por primera vez. Sus construcciones de arquitectura colonial tienen toda una historia por contar y las actividades a realizar en la plaza seguro que te encantar\u00e1n. \u00bfTe animas a dar un paseo? \u00a1Te contamos todo al respecto! Historia de &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perurail.com\/es\/blog\/plaza-de-armas\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plaza de Armas de Cusco<\/span> Leer m\u00e1s &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,63,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-cusco","category-turismo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Plaza de Armas de Cusco - Train to Machu Picchu - Ollantaytambo - Cusco | Peru Rail | Deals | Perurail<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perurail.com\/es\/blog\/plaza-de-armas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Plaza de Armas de Cusco - Train to Machu Picchu - Ollantaytambo - Cusco | Peru Rail | Deals | Perurail\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"La&nbsp;Plaza de Armas de Cusco&nbsp;es un deleite para la vista de cualquier visitante que la conozca por primera vez. 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