Abstract EN:

Day after the downfall of Inca Empire and spectacular conquest of Peru by the Spanish, there should have been countless consequences resulting from this very frontal clash between two civilizations. The perception of the principal historians of sixteenth and the first half of seventeenth centuries, about the imposing architecture of Inca provoked a vast corpus of testimonies. The first perception characterized, brief, with factual features and effected panegyrics of the conquest offer us a small amount of detailed remarks upon the Inca constructions. The major interrogations raised by them concern : forms, materials and the technics utilized by Inca, as well as complicated problems like function, symbolism of these structures. It seems that reflection upon these various questions would rely on the beforehand testimonies, but, of course, they should be associated with numerous archeological knowledge of present time.