Saturday, October 25, 2008

ABOUT CRISTO BLANCO

Between 1870 and 1890 years aproximately, in peru, principally here in cusco there was a lot of people of Arabia and Palestina that used to live here, for this rason many lintels of the cusco's doors were carved by them.(jesuits symbols).Palestinian and arabian people were friendly and they lived a long time, many years after they had a great idea to build a big sculpture called "Cristo Blanco".
Manuel Jasaui Facuse and Ernesto Olazo Allende were who had to build this impressive monument.
the first stone that they put on the Puka Moqo hill just was in the first celebration of Inti Raymi in jun 24 of 1944.
Cristo Blanco has 8 high meters and for the building they used granito stone and marble and it covered with gypsum.
The Cristo Blanco was building above pukamoqo hill because there are a special history about the incas, in the inca time they had many town conquered of diferent regions of america; regions of colombia, ecuador, chile, bolivia and another places of the center of peru.
The inkas emperor arrived with the leader of the conquered town carrying sacks of earth of their territories to put on the pukamoqo hill and the emperor of the inkas told him " You will live here with the qosqos people".
For this reason the Pukamoqo hill looks like diferent colors and the hill has an enigmatic and special sensation.