ORIGIN OF THE NAMES OF THE STREETS OF COLONIAL CUSCO

PLATEROS:

In this street that at beginning was called of the conquerors, be concetrated on the time of the construction of the convent of merced, the workshop of the spanish teachers; quintin de alonso, cosme de la vega, diego de peralta, javier de urribarry y vascones.

from that time, and until the twilights of colonisaje, the town called street from platerias to which today calls plateros.

PORTAL OF CONFITURIA

The town of in the past called it "portal of fonderias", because poor people and salespersons of the market of the biggest square, they went at nine in the morning and three in the afternoon to satisfy the hunger there in the smoky dives stablished, in time of bishop ocon, a liberated called quarter note maria, settled in that portal being devoted to make nougats and candies(confites) of that which the name of this place comes.

PORTAL OF THE TRADE

It was called this by the stores that there jewish and spanish merchants had, selling overseas merchandise, cloth of segovia and cloth of castile, so dear for the women of the populace, already in the time of the emancipation portal was called of clothes-older.

PORTAL OF THE COMPANY

It call "portal of tailors" until the convent of the jesuit was inagurated, with fifty friars that settled in the three doisters of the roomy convent;whose construction including that of its beautiful temple was directed by the brother pietro and ludovico maleroni architects and priests jesuit, natural of fiesson in italy taking in concluding so vast building single seventeen years, watching over all work the father francisco patiño.

NEW PORTAL

This located in the square of the regoicing, also called" of the town council" ; and its construction, of modern style, on the debris of which was destroyed by the earthquake of 1650, only dates of the year 1876 in that he made begin foundations a surname gentleman lecaros whose death paralyzed the work that was concluded later years, half century ago, for this reason it is called "portal de lecaros" or "new portal".