Literature
Romance of Barbaracha by Luis Nieto
Cuzco’s women demand attention. And Cuzco’s most famous poet of the twentieth century, Luis “El Cholo” Nieto Miranda gives it to them. He looks at the woman as a man of his time and place and invests her with the traits of Cuzco’s culture as he gives the opening of an important work. Titled after the emblematic Charango, a ten-stringed, small Andean instrument of Cuzco’s historic lower middle classes who were neither members of Indigenous communities nor urban elites, the cholos, Nieto gave his book the subtitle “A Cholo Romance”. Published in 1942, Its first poem, presented here in translation, is Romance de la Barbaracha or a Romance for Barbaracha.0 2042
Restaurants
Fantasy Comes to Cuzco at Tres . Cafe
Just a half block from Cuzco’s popular Plaza de Armas, on Plateros Street, stands a small, warm, and colorful place, Tres . Cafe. Creatively designed, it transports you into a world of fantasy in its decorations and its division into two floors. It is a wonderful place to have a drink, eat a pastry, and use their internet while relaxing from the rigors of a visit to Cuzco.0 1323
Ingredients
Holy, Nutritious, and Exotic Wheat
One can only imagine how strange Peru must have seemed to the Spaniards who arrived with the invading force and in the following years. Here they did not have most of the foods they knew at home. Instead, they found lots of corn (maize), hot peppers, and potatoes. Today these foods are common place and part of the Spanish diet, but then they may as well have come from Mars they were so strange. The first time Spanish crops were cultivated in Peru it must have struck the Spaniards as a marvel.0 1390
Customs, Food Culture
Cuzco Honors the Mother Earth on August First
This morning, early, Cuzco sprouted yellow confetti. It seems to be everywhere, a trail of yellow around the edge of houses and buildings. It is the Day of the Pachamama, the Lady of the Earth or Earth Mother, a time when people bless their houses and businesses by making the festive offering of yellow. Others will make an entire "payment" (pago) to the earth in a ritual meal that they burn so she can enjoy its smoke and be fed.0 1611
Restaurants
Natural, a New Vegetarian Restaurant Serves up Food and Huaynos in San Blas
The sound of bouncing huaynos, a traditional music, reaches into the street to call people in. It is the sonoral … 1 1349
Archeology, Culture, history, Travel
Funeral Rites in Inca Times
Inca culture was characterized by its religious and magical beliefs where death and life were one. The being did not … 0 1427
Archeology, Culture, history
Mama Qaqa or better known as ‘Mother Stone’
Mama Qaqa or better known as ‘Mother Stone’ is present among the wak’as (or huaca. A wak’a (Quechua) is an … 0 2969
history
PUCUY SUCANCA AND CHIRAO SUCANCA, INCA SOLAR OBSERVATION
One of the most important problems of astronomy and Inca calendar involves an evaluation of the identities and role of … 1 2842
history