Was so amazed at this place, you have to see this before going to Machupicchu. I leaned so much about the Incas. Especially the guides are so helpful. We got to explore a lot. Thank you guys!!!

Beautiful place with so much history! Paintings and sculpture from 1500s and 1600s.

Amazing place to visit. The most important temple of the Inca world located in Cusco city. I highly recommend to visit before or after visit machu picchu

The temple is a mixture of Incas and Spanish cultures. Full of questions. Stunning view from the terrace.

An interesting museum that has several pre-Incan stone carvings and examples of pottery. It is the city where the clay bulls on the top of houses come from.

Lovely place to walk through amidst the history, art, and ruins that help visually weave more of the story of Incan history and Spanish conquest. The grounds are well kept and the view of Cusco from the terrace is breathtaking.

This place is amazing, you need to visit if, from outside and inside.

Nice but crowded place, so hart to take a good picture, people everywhere.

Its the perfect place where you can see all the mixtures of cultures. In one side the prehispanic inca culture with the ruins of an amazing temple and on the another hand, the catholic culture brought by the soanish conquerors. our tour guide explained us very well all the mixtures of this amazing place

Beautiful museum with touched of history no photos allowed

It takes a bit of imagination but whats left from the ancient Inca temple is enough to make you realize that Inca builders were great.

Unique building with a fairy-tale history. It used to be Incas Temple of Sun, is walls covered with gold and garden made of golden flowers and animals. All these golden treasures, of course, were looted and destroyed.But the massive foundations withstood everything. Now they support Spanish church. This place is symbol of both disruption and continuity.

This is an amazing temple of Inca empire in Qosqo Peru, the most important place for pray to gods. It’s beautiful but very sadly that Spanish conquers ruined almost the whole place to build a Catholic Church. Not sense anyway.

The entrance fee is s/15 and it really worth a visit. It has a very beautiful plaza inside and you can take pictures of the outside spaces. Like most of the religious sites in Cusco, photography and films are forbidden for most of the internal spaces, no matter with or without flash. S/1 for audio guide on cellphones.

Great sun temple made by perfect stones building methods. From the top you would see whole valley, is different wider and historic feeling.

If you take your time it may be a 2 hr trip. Wintertime - dress warm as youll be walking through galleries in open air. Beautiful museum that comes with an informative and glitch-free 1 sole app audio guide in multiple languages. Available to smart phone users. Enjoyed my time learning about the history of this temple/cathedral.

Beautiful grounds and lots of interesting history here. Its not just another church. A must see and admission is very inexpensive. $15 soles.

Good place and awesome Cuscos history

Lovely place in the heart of Cusco. It’s located inside of the hotel. The yard is full of flowers,an amazing terrace that seems to be cozy if it’s not raining. We got our main courses rather fast and they were tasty👌🏻Fair price and good service.

Preserved remnants of an Inca temple within the walls of the church and convent...

Its a beautiful and historic place..

Wonderful museum / cathedral built upon a beautiful Inca ruin. There are guides which speak various languages or a self guided option with headsets.My wife and I decided to go it alone; lots of plaques explain the various facets of the place. Don’t miss the rotating exhibits on the second level.A great half day visit, and an easy walk from most of the central hotels and hostels.Highly recommended!

Beautiful place! Probably one of the best points in Cusco, I strongly recommend it.The ticket cost 15 PEN approx and they offer a audio guide too. This audio guide it’s an app so go with headphones if you want to use it.The tour takes 45 minutes approx.Great and awesome place!

The Inca architecture is amazing as always, outlasting the Spaniards attempts to destroy it! This is definitely someplace to see.

This is a place for serious reflection.After the fall of the Inca civilization, many native Incan worship temples were left, and most of them were converted into Catholic churches or monasteries. One of the most famous of ancient one is the Temple of the Qorikancha for Sun god, which is now the Santo Domingo monastery and church. There were english audio guide for rent, but the quality of voice were very poor, we had to go back to the door to hire a local guide.The ruins of the Sun Temple have been partially restored for tourists to visit. The walls and floor of the temple were originally covered with pure gold, but were later demolished to pay the ransom to Spanish conquistadors to save last Inca king, currently there is only a gold plate replica for display leaving visitors to imagine. In addition, there are also series of temples: Temple of the Moon, the Temple of Thunder and Light, the Temple of the Rainbow. During the Great Earthquake at 1766, the church was severely damaged, but ancient Inca temples with unique structure survived. The hall contains the Incas understanding of the Milky Way, as well as the twelve Inca religion calendar and twelve farming calendar translated by later generations. The most important Sun shrine is just a unnoticeable recess in the wall, no one paid attention if not mentioned by our guide.

Absolutely astounding piece of history. Some of the original walls build by the Incas remained. The architecture was incredible here.

Very interesting place to visit. It has a lot of history so I recommend paying a few soles for a personal guide at the door. The place has some amazing views of the city

We spent a wonderful hour looking around this temple. We opted to take a private tour with a guide who was standing in front of the entrance. The price was s50 for 2 people and in my opinion very worth it to understand the importance of the structure and what it meant to the Inkas. This is also a beautiful place for views of the city.

Beautiful Spanish temple that was built upon ancient Incan temple ruins. After major earthquakes in Cusco, the Spanish infrastructure of the temple have change but the Inca walls and columns have remained intact. There are a museum and a nice viewing spot in the street behind it.

We first went past Qorikancha while driving to our lodgings. It stands out immediately for its unique architecture built on top of Incan ruins. When we returned on foot, we visited the near by museum. The museum has some unique artifacts and is worth the quick visit.

Interesting exhibit but the issue is that there wasnt much guidance from staff about how to best explore it. We spent some time so we eventually figured out all of the areas. Could be a lot more material catering towards English speaking tourists.

In Cuzco, must go and check out this place. Cuzco had to be gorgeous place before the INVATORS .

Absolutely stunning museum contains some of the most well preserved and restored artifacts from the 15th century. The detailed small scale modes really help the viewers better understand the construction in the original time. Highly recommend coming through here with the help of a guided tour who will be able to offer up a lot more information than the placards alone.

A great moment, you can have a guide or audio guide or going by yourself, most of explanations are in Spanish and in English. You will see differences between Inca architecture and Spanish architecture. Also on the second floor, there is a temporary exposition space.

I stopped by less than an hour before the doors closed for a quick self-guided your. The guards were nice and let me know that the closing time is the last entry, and you can stay a bit longer. There was a lack of info about the ruins on the ground floor, but other than that the exhibits and artwork were very interesting. The view over the city is really nice around sunset. Make sure to go upstairs to view the choir loft and other rooms (easy to miss if you’re not paying attention). The highlight for me was a set of two beautiful contemporary paintings about Incan cosmology.

Magical place that gives you a new perspective on Cusco before the Spanish invasion. Didnt expect this many Inca buildings had survived.

It is a spectacular place I spent two hours there. There is lots of wow factor and its worth the time and the 10 Soles you pay for admission.

Really enjoyed the tour and the architecture of the Sun Temple. There is a rich history that is a must see in Cuzco. We paid for a tour guide who spoke great English and made the experience that much enjoyable.Very Interesting and worth the Visit.

An important place to visit and this id the most important place in incas time. I got there on May 18, in a free night museum. I really enjoyed it the international museum day.Visit it by day or night.

Beautiful and most important and sacred site for the Incans of the past.

Amazing inkas temple, partly covered by colonial church.Costs 15 sols

A fascinating museum with an interesting collection of early colonial artifacts. Some really great art, and the Incan walls were really interesting. It would be better if there were better signage or an audio guide in English or something to explain more of the rich history in this very storied place.

Easy to get to and you can easily purchase tickets for 15 sol. Guides are friendly, helpful and speak English. If you have a couple of hours to burn or a slow day I definitely suggest seeing. Its a mixture of Catholic art and Inca architecture. Syncretism

An interesting archaeological site in the center of Cusco. It’s pretty cheap so I suggest just stoping by for an hour or so when you have some extra time one of your days in the city.

The best inca ruins in cuzco! Here you can see the most perfect construction style used by incas, with perfectly polished stones. To visit this place you have to pay two tickets, one for the part that it’s inside the monastery/church and other ticket for the insite museum with several mummies that is under the lawn.

Excellent little tour of one of the greatest treasures of the Inca empire!!

A beautiful museum that commentates and preserves the ancient Incan temple as well as the more contemporary Spanish monastery which now stands above it. A beautiful building with great views of Cuzco also. The Incan stone masonry will leave you absolutely gob smacked

A visit to Qorikancha is essential to understand the complex mix of cultures present in the old Inca capital. The building itself is symbolic of the history that is at play: old inca ruins are used as a base for a Spanish style church that was built on-top of this sacred Inca space.As is the case with the majority of museums and historical spaces in Peru, self-guided tours are difficult to do due to the lack of posted information in several sections of the museum. Guides are recommended, but be sure to find a certified guide, as many unlicensed guides give incorrect information.

A place full of culture, wisdom and mysteries. Boxes, constructions and amazing paintings.

For anyone visiting this place, I recommend a private tour guide who can explain you details about Inka architecture, and Spanish colonial history.

Qorikancha is a real cool temple in Cusco with a lot of history. It houses the temple of the sun which showcases some pretty impressive advanced methods used to determine the times of day, seasons, etc. I recommend the guided tour cause there is a lot more to the place than what you can gather by just walking around. Very cool photo opportunities.

A wonderful place with lots of information about the Inca’s main temple.

It was great to walk in and see the skillful stone work created by the Inca. There is a separate museum underneath that has a totally different entry fee that Im not sure is worth as much as to see the grounds (although the museum entry is covered in the tourist ticket while the main grounds is not).

Nice historical place to visit when you are having a free time at Cusco. Much better to have a guide to get an idea about the place. It was one of major Incan temple and still you can see the preserved Incans foundations inside the church.

Impressive place where you can contemplate the details of there precise architecture!Amazing to think this temple dedicated to the sun was covered of gold on both walls and floors... Typical of Incas style this site should be the first step of the sacred valley as it is central, well preserved and the capital of this ancient civilization.

Grrat place enjoyable to know more about the culture

With its fascinating Inca background this historic site is a must visit.

Amazing place and must go, you will see good blocks of inca lego walls, and you will understand why You should respect other cultures, by building a church on top of inca peoples great temple, a good idea? May be thats why a great colonial empire dies so quickly and became so little now

It gets packed so go early and you can take a nice picture of El Jardín Sagrado from the streets. Looks beautiful at night too

The remains of this Incan masterpiece are still awe inspiring. Whilst I didnt take the tour I still learnt a lot but Id definitely suggest a guide. Its amazing and I truly grieved the loss of this once mighty empire

Super neat. You should go.The museum not only showed Incan ruins but had many paintings and other relics.

Amazing Temple to learn more about Inka History

Majestic Intiraymis morning in the Qorikancha.

Worth visiting! You can experience the convent of Santo Domingo built upon the foundation of Inca architecture.

Good place to study and understand Inkan construction.

Small but very precise on information about the development of the Inca culture in Cusco region, the staff was attentive and even helped me showing me where there was signal for my cellphone since the museum is underground. Saw a lot of local families visiting it and also helpedMe understand the cosmovision of the Incas and the old Peruvians.

This serviced as most important Incan temple before Spanish invasion. After invasion Santo Domingo church and convent was built on what was left. You can still see some parts of Incan temple today

Good to know more about the catholic and Andean world

Not really interesting as much as the church.

Very impressive site within the city, and one the most important temple in the Inca empire. Dedicated primarily to Inti, the Sun God. It is one of the most revered temples of Cusco.

This was one of the handful of places I had to see while I was traveling in Peru. The stories did not spoil the experience. I’m glad I was able to see it and would not trade the experience for another. I’d recommend going, you will not be let down.

Beautiful place to visit, if youre in cusco this is a must visit place. The history of this place is amazing, it shares infrastructure of the Incas combined with the ones of the Spanish conquerors.

Very old historic monastery in the middle of the Cuzco. Inside you can spot old inca walls, from the time before conquest.

Entrance worth every soles! Definite get the audio guide as well!

Great architecture and interesting

Wonderful, magic place. With the ticket for the tour (s. /130) you can go into the quorikancha and the museum which leads to the park next to the Quorikancha.

Good way to introduce handloom. They have many options to buy things for.

Amazing a must see

It costs 15 soles to go inside and sure, it’s an important museum but it is totally worthless if you don’t have a guide with you. Basically what you’ll see is a bunch of rocks put together to form walls and some religious paintings. Now, if you do have a guide with you, and mind, a good guide, the museum illustrates the complexity of the ancient inca culture. Bare in mind that it is not a temple, but rather a scientific place in which the incas lived and observed the universe, the climate and weather and learned primarily about time.

Definitely worth a stop when you are in town. The guided tour with English speaking guide adds the richness of the locations history.

Incredible history and interesting contrast between Inca architecture and Spanish colonial.

Beware! The Boleto Turístico includes only the tiny and very poor quality Museo de Sitio Qorikancha, (not separately marked on Google maps atm!) which is accessed by the white steps going underground in the garden, below the cathedral. The cathedral museum is *not* included and costs 15 soles extra. The Museo de Sitio... is really small - just 4 small rooms - and has very little in it, and is quite basic. Not at all worth visiting! Bit of a scam that its on the Boleto Turístico at all, probably to get you to pay extra for the cathedral as many people will do, since theyve taken the trouble to go there! 🙄

Site from the inca site where the Spaniards build a new church. Interesting to see.

Amazing experience, incan and Spanish mix

Beautiful place, a lot of history in one place, ancient Incas temple, beautiful gardens, its a must!

Place is open, even though you cant do the whole tour. You can either take the tour on your own or pay a guide, which is around PEN 25-40. Groups area allowed up to 8 people, must keep social distancing and masks in place

So beautiful and historic! The Inca Wall is a masterpiece of construction and a must see in Cusco... English guides make it perfect for tourists but just as easy to tour on your own. Great prices and so much to see.

Avoid 2pm-4pm which is when bus loads of tours arrive and pack the place out. Outside of those times it would be much nicer and easier to appreciate without it being so hectic.

Good paintings, well maintained temples, paintings

Free to visit and in this place you buy a ticket to Machu Picchu. Ps. bring your passport if you are not Peruan.

Great place! Amazing arts! Wonderful garden!

Interesting experience in preparation to visit Machu Picchu.

The museum is underground. Its a bit dreary with just some general information and some mildly interesting exhibits. All the pictures are from the patch of grass which is all this location is. The pictures are of the Catholic church/monastery established on the Incan site. The church/monastery is a different place, entered separately for a separate fee.

Ok. Ok

Very neat and beautiful place!

The lower museum is pretty incredible, and the site itself is a great visit both during the day and night. The lower museum has actual mummies inside, and great explanations for all of the pieces.

Beautiful part of historic Cusco.

Absolute must see in Coscu! Great museum with so many things to see! The price is only 15 soles per person!

Interesting site; looking at inka made building from the gallery was particularly interesting

There is nothing to see here. It used to be Inca temple but now it part of church, art gallery & garden. Entrance fee is 15 Sol for adult.