Templo Compañía de Jesús

Ayacucho


This church has two fine bell towers and, in the body of the structure supporting them, striking embossings and motifs. It sits on the site of its 1605 predecessor, and took more than a century and a half to complete fully (from the 1640s to the early 1800s).


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3. Plaza Moré

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4. Prefectura

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6. Arch

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The pretty southern entrance to the historical center of Ayacucho.

8. Iglesia de La Merced

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This church, built in the mid-16th century, is full of colonial art and has one of Peru’s oldest convents attached, dating from the same period.

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