Quinta San Blas

Cuzco


In the heart of busy San Blas, this 20-room colonial offers an oasis of calm. Spare rooms feature king-sized beds with crisp white bedding and walls, with subway-tile bathrooms and central heating. There's also in-room safes and TVs. A minimalist decor makes fine old details like Spanish tiles and the wraparound courtyard balcony stand out even more.


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Nearby Cuzco attractions

1. Iglesia de San Blas

0.09 MILES

This simple adobe church is comparatively small, but you can’t help but be awed by the baroque, gold-leaf principal altar. The exquisitely carved pulpit,…

2. Museo de la Coca

0.11 MILES

A good primer on Andean culture, this is a wonderful and kitschy little museum that traces the uses of the coca leaf, from sacred ritual to its more…

3. Museo de Arte Precolombino

0.14 MILES

Inside a Spanish colonial mansion with an Inca ceremonial courtyard, this dramatically curated pre-Columbian art museum showcases a stunningly varied, if…

4. Museo de Arte Religioso

0.15 MILES

Originally the palace of Inca Roca, the foundations of this museum were converted into a grand colonial residence and later became the archbishop’s palace…

5. Iglesia del Triunfo

0.2 MILES

Cuzco’s oldest church houses a vault containing the remains of the famous Inca chronicler Garcilaso de la Vega, who was born in Cuzco in 1539 and died in…

6. Museo Inka

0.21 MILES

The charmingly modest Museo Inka, a steep block northeast of the Plaza de Armas, is the best museum in town for those interested in the Incas. The…

7. La Catedral

0.22 MILES

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8. Museo Machu Picchu

0.23 MILES

This newish museum exhibits 360 pieces from Machu Picchu taken by Hiram Bingham's expeditions and recently returned by Yale University, including stone…