The small town of Andahuaylillas is on the main road that connects Cusco with Lake Titicaca. What may first appear just as a typical town is well worth the visit. There town has a main square with a modest church that appears as many others throughout the region it was built from adobe on the site of a former Incan palace a scenario seen elsewhere in Peru.
Yet as you walk through the church's doors you will discover at once why the San Pedro Church is called the ‘Sistine Chapel of the Andes’, the church's interior is an artistic masterpiece of carved woods, paintings, and frescos.
As you enter the church there are incredible contrasting frescos on either side of the main door on one side is the road to heaven and on the other the road to hell. As your eyes rise up to the ceiling you will see the ceiling is decorated in a floral patterns accented by gold leaf. The church's walls are blanketed with inspiring paintings from the bible framed in gold creating a pathway to the front of the church and the 24 karat gold leaf alter.
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