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We invite you to discover the brief story behind seven streets with peculiar names in Cusco.
These streets are located in downtown Cusco and are easy to find.
While you enjoy your stay at Casa San Blas Boutique, hotel in Cusco, do not miss the opportunity to visit them.
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According to the chronicles of Cusco, the Inca General Atau Qilacu Yupanqui, whose conquests were legendary, inhabited the last house that can be seen from the beginning of this street. In the stone lintel of the same two snakes are carved in an attitude of attack.
During the colonial times, the street acquired that name due to its narrowness and gloomy appearance; as well as an urban legend that tells of a walking coffin that appeared on this street scaring pedestrians.
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Another urban legend gives name to this street. It is said that this was inhabited by an old grumpy woman who, even after death, roomed the house, letting shouts and chilling noises to the neighbors.
It is said that the son of the deceased used to place a box at the front door of the house with the label “a handout for the souls of purgatory”
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This is a cobbled street, where it is said that the conquerors made the natives let the stones they took out from Sacsayhuaman roll for the construction of the Main Square and the Cathedral of Cusco. This work was hard and painful for the natives, who often suffered accidents. For this reason, the street was called «Mucchuicata» (in Qechua), which translated into Spanish means «BItterness Street».
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This street is located next to what is now the Court House. It is said that formerly, in this street the bodies of the executed were exhibited, whose relatives made demonstrations of pain.
It is also said that many citizens in search of justice gathered in this place to tell their afflictions.
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This is the name of a narrow, small and poorly paved street where passers-by, especially women, make it difficult to walk.
It is said that formerly women had to pick up their long dresses to avoid tripping by allowing them not only to let other people see their socks (stockings) but also their calves, provoking roguish comments from the men.
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In the mid-twentieth century, Mr. Alfonso Cortes Montoy, ordered to put on the lintel of the house where he lived, a small image of Our Lady of the Helpless, to whom he had a lot of devotion.
This image remained in place until the day of the great earthquake of the year 1950, remaining since that time only the name of the street.
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It is said that Mr. Juan José Ricalde, upon making his triumphal entry into Cusco as the new Corregidor of the city, was welcomed with flowers. Two wealthy ladies in order to show their importance began throwing sealed and carved silver coins. One of these coins ended up slitting his head. The lady who caused such an accident hastened to apologize by hugging him repeatedly.
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