Peru - Cusco 077 - La Merced rising over Plaza de Armas
2012 Cusco, Peru
The bell tower of the La Merced church rises above Cusco's Plaza de Armas in this 2012 photograph. Cusco was the capital of the Inca Empire before Spanish colonization, and much of its colonial-era architecture was raised atop earlier Inca foundations.
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