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Cathedral of Cusco has a rectangular basilica-type floor plan with three naves: the epistle nave, the gospel nave and the central nave, coinciding with the three doors on the façade. It has fourteen cruciform pillars that define the distribution of the twenty-four rib vaults, the largest being
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Catholic Church on February 8, 1928. The construction, with three naves, stands on a hall-type floor plan. A surprising detail is the fusion between the order of the capitals and friezes and the type of roof used: the
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lot adjacent to the one assigned for the construction of the cathedral and which corresponded to the old
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16th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Peru
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549:Vitruvius
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487:Pachacuti
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337:Viracocha
297:Viracocha
259:Nighttime
218:Reference
180:Materials
174:Southwest
158:Completed
1125:Archived
1103:(1894).
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773:European
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503:Cusipata
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