CUZCO, a strange city made of rock foundation and Spanish-Moorish style.

Cuzco, the former capital of the Tahuantinsuyo, the center of the Empire of the Four Regions and the Navel of the World, was built at 3,400 m. above the sea level in the shape of an enormous Puma.
Animals always played an important role in the myths of the Incas. Reptiles, Felines, and Birds figures are processed symbolically in and around the place chosen to be the capital city.
Knowing the power invested in the Andes Mountain Range, the Incas were able to domesticate it and control it, thanks to the knowledge of the cosmological movement of the galaxy and the direct connection of the earth ground with it.
About 250 million years old have the rocks that were used to built the capital city, and they were formed at that time  at a depth of 8 to 16 km of the earth's crust. Then with the process of Andean uplift, the rocks surfaced as fractured granite and were formed thousands of years before it ended up as foundations and walls for the citadel construction.
The legend tells us that the first Sapa Inca Manco Capac and his royal wife Mama Ocllo received the assignment of the foundation of the capital city from the God of the Sun, the Inti itself.
They were told to establish the capital city of the new Empire where the sacred golden staff given to them managed to sunk in the ground. The task assigned to them was to improve the life of the people living in the region that now comprise seven countries (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina). The region of the Andes held by the Incas contained several high plateaus that were used for the construction of their sacred places.
The work of the Incas was to stabilize the energy of these places through the use of the blocks unearthed by Nature through terraces, walkways and platforms, then for the building of  their most important sacred palaces, temples, governmental buildings, and for their drainage systems.
The fortress just outside the city known as Sacsayhuaman, which forms the head of this sacred Puma is made of from this sacred stones. The square between the legs of the animal was chosen to be the Central Plaza, and the body of this sacred animal was represented as the space containing  all their most important sacred places.
The Spanish arrived in Cuzco late 1533 and were astonished and frightened by the beauty and the natural light of the city. Eyewitnesses described the place as a city of gold and light. Streets were quite, the Incas had no horses and the biggest domestic animal was the sacred llama. Street life was quiet because the inhabitants walked only in sandals. The streets were clean and had two canals : every one has the sewerage line in one side and on the other side of the street a canal with fresh and clean river water.
After the Spanish robed all the gold and other valuables, they burned Cuzco to the ground. Only the stones surfaced by Nature long time ago and used by the Incas as foundations for their buildings to overcome earthquakes and time, survived the disaster.
During the colonization time the same foundation were used for building Catholic Churches.
In the philosophy of time only solid foundation made of stones overcome disasters. Spanish people couldn't destroy the spiritual foundation of the people of the Andes instead they were bound to use the same sacred stones to  build their strange religious spirit.