Cusco is a city located to the south of Peru; throughout history Cusco has different human occupations so initially we have the Inca, Colonial and Republican occupation each stage has left us samples of different architectural forms giving samples of art with peculiarities of each time that were fused together.
The large house called SIX PUMAS is located in Santa Teresa Street No. 383, its location near the Plaza de Armas is two blocks.
It is part of the group of important houses of the monumental helmet, in the main facade of the Casona de los Seis Pumas, there are Inca walls with a fine finish that extends to the second floor; these lithic elements were built in a neo-Inca period in which six pumas can be seen carved in stone in the upper part over the lintel of one of the entrances to the building. On the second level you can see a heraldic emblem of Bishop Mollinedo y Angulo who was an important inhabitant and owner of the building in the seventeenth century.
The Casona of six pumas has wooden balconies of fine finishing from the Republican era.
The Casona has an entrance hall with a wide staircase towards the patio surrounded by Inca walls, it has corridors on the second and third levels giving warmth and imposing because of its height and decoration of carved cedar wood that invites you to walk through them being a preamble to the entrance to the elegant rooms of colonial style in its decoration.
Although the Casona was built in the colonial period (1532), and transformed in the following periods, it conserves an important set of Inca walls in the high part of the second floor; according to the Cusquenian tradition it is known as the Casona de los Seis Pumas.
Santa Teresa Street is part of the historical center of Cusco, is a road where cultural and religious manifestations of Cusco traditions circulate. Now the Casona is conditioned to give tourist service for the visitors to the Capital City of the Empire of the Incas. It has spacious rooms decorated in colonial style.
