Trips to Peru

Arequipa is the second more important city of the Peru, recognized by UNESCO like Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity from the year 2000.
Is known it from the colonial time like the “White City”, by its numerous temples and large houses constructed with sillar (volcanic lava stone), coming from the volcanos that are yerguen in front of the city, between that emphasizes the Misti (5821msnm).

The name of Arequipa is united to an old legend. According to he says himself, in an opportunity Able the Mayta Inca happened with his soldiers through these earth and decided to encamp; when the moment arrived for starting off some of their men solicitd it to have left. Then the Inca responded in quechua “ari quepay”, that means “if, quedaos.”

The 15 of August of 1540, in the name of Francisco Pizarro, Garci Manuel de Carbajal and almost one hundred of Spaniards founded the city of Arequipa. Built on the foot of the Misti, the city went turning with happening of the time in center of the Spanish and Creole presence.

During the Republic, Arequipa was the cradle of political propose revolutionaries and scene of confrontations between diverse caudillos. Great politicians of XIX like Francisco Javier Pizarro the Moon, president of the Congress in numerous occasions, and Nicholas de Piérola, revolutionary and president of Peru, are only some of the illustrious figures that were born in this department.

Century XIX, Arequipa became an important center of wool export of ewe and alpaca towards England, thus obtaining to seat its economic force in the country.

Doubtless, Arequipa conserves in our days its economic leadership and it has become in center of the commerce and the industry of the south of the country. In addition, the tourism is added to the protagonism of this city.

• Altitude: 2 335 msnm

• Minimum demurrage: 2 days for the city, 3 for the Tube of Colca and 6 for the Tube dl Cotahuasi.

• Season/climate: Dry climate and tempering. Fresh nights.

• Celebrations: 15 of August: Anniversary of the City of Arequipa; 21 of October: Celebration of Santa Úrsula

• Gastronomy: “It absorbs of Shrimps” (soup of shrimps with milk, eggs and oregano), “stuffed Rocoto” (filling of meat, cheese, milk and Popes), “marinade arequipeño” (meat of marinaded and decorated pig), “Pebre” (soup with meat of lamb, head of cattle or cured meat of sheep), “Sango” (sweet of wheat, honey, milk and raisins).

• Crafts: embossed leather, forged iron and decorative articles in sillar.

• Attractive near: Valley and Tube of the Colca, Tube of the Cotahuasi, ascent to volcanos Misti and Chachani, petroglyphs of Died Toro, White National of Salt mines and Watered down Reserve.


• Attractive more outstanding of the city:

- Monastery of Santa Catherine
Visits: L-D 9:00 - 16: 00
Street Santa Catherine 301
One of the attractive majors of Arequipa is east Convent, considered “a city within another city”, that was constructed to lodge the daughters of the distinguished families more of the city. The monastery was inaugurated the 2 of October of 1580 under the invocation of Santa Catherine de Siena as a center of absolute closing and thus stayed until the 15 of August of 1970. The convent of Santa Catherine occupies an approximated area of 20 thousand meters square and it is divided in distributed districts of way similar to the first districts of Arequipa.
It presents/displays very diverse rooms architectonic. One of atmospheres has been prepared like pinacoteca to exhibit some linen cloths of the schools cuzqueña, arequipeña and Quito. Account in addition with other rooms or sectors to visit like the Cloister of the Portería, the Pre-Columbian Museum, the Cloister of San Francisco, the Amazonian Museum, etc.

- Cathedral of the City of Arequipa
Place of Arms. Tel: (054) 21-5701
Visits: Ls 7:30 - 11: 30 and 17:00 - 20: 00, D 7:00 - 12: 45 and 17:00 - 19: 30
It is considered him like one of the first religious centers of century XVII in the city. It was constructed in sillar (stone of volcanic origin) with brick vaults, was destroyed by a reconstructed fire in 1844 and in 1868 by arequipeño Lucas Poblete. It is of neoclassic style; the income to the temple are located in the lateral ships. Hard it was struck by the earthquake of the year 2001 that mainly affected its towers.

- Church and Complex of the Company
Intersection of the General street Mora'n and the street Alvarez Thomas, Place of Arms of the city of Arequipa
Visits: L-D 10:00 - 13: 00 and 15:30 - 19: 00
It is integrated by diverse buildings raised by the Jesuits as much for religious aims as for house. The joint one forms a representative monument of the own religious architecture of century XVII (1660). In the middle of the set it excels the temple. The Church of the Company was designed in 1573 by Gaspar Báez and destroyed by the 1584 earthquake. The present structure data of 1650.

- Complex and Church of San Francisco
Zela street cdra. 1 s/n. Tel: (054) 22-3048
Visits: Ls 9:00 - 12: 00 and 15:00 - 17: 00
The complex includes the franciscan church, the convent and a small temple known like the Third Order inside this one. In the church they emphasize the baroque pulpit decorated with shortened relief and the frontal of silver of the greater altar. In addition, the Alley has been integrated to the set, that separated the Church than it was the jail of women; it has been turned into a gallery of artisan exhibition and is known as “I found the Iron”.

- Convent of the Calm one
Jr Calm 117. Tel: (054) 27-0966
Visits: Ls 9:00 - 12: 00 and 15:00 - 17: 00
Franciscan convent founded on 1648, was abrió to the public just in 1978. It presents/displays different styles that go from the Romanesque one to a neon-gothic one, due to his diverse reconstructions (the last data of 1940)
Four cloisters and eleven atmospheres integrate the convent. The Archaeological and Anthropological Museum, the Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Religious Art exist three museums. Also, it counts on a pinacoteca with linen cloths of the school cuzqueña and arequipeña and a valuable library with approximately 20 thousand volumes, very old maps and documents.

- Church and Convent of Santo Domingo
Intersection Santo Domingo street and Rivero street. Tel (054) 21-3511. Visits: L-V 7:00 - 12: 00 and 15:00 - 19: 30. S 7:00 - 9: 00 and 15:00 - 19: 30. D 5:30 - 12: 30
They characterize to this church the tower of the bell tower, its vestibule with esquinado pedestal and its impeccable arc underneath the choir. In the interior pieces of imagery and linen cloths with reasons can be appreciated sacra. Similarly, the lateral cover of the oldest church for being of Arequipa is well-known. The greater cloister of the convent was constructed around 1734.

- House of the Moral
Moral street 318, Surrounded
Visits: L-V 9:00 - 17: 00 and DF 9:00 - 13: 00
Large house of century XVII, constitutes one of older and important architectonic monuments of the baroque one in Arequipa. The house must its name to an old tree of you dwell that it grows in his main patio. The cover in sillar, constitutes a true work of art in which carved figures are appraised carefully. For example, a crown on a shield is maintained by two angels, as well, the shield is made up of a castle, a bird, puma and two crossed keys.

- District of San Lazaro
To 5 pictures of the Place of Arms of the city of Arequipa. According to account the tradition,
on San Lazaro the city of Arequipa was based. This district of side streets, close passages, small places and ample houses is the most representative zone of old Arequipa. It emphasizes a small bridge that unites the Hermitage and its square with the rest of the district.

- Goyeneche House
Street Favor 201. Tel: (054) 21-2251
Visits: Ls 9:00 - 12: 00 and 16:00 - 18: 00
Large house of sillar, dates from half-full from century XVI and completely is decorated respecting the colonial style. Linen cloths of the school are conserved cuzqueña and sculptures of the granadina school of century XVII. It must his name to gift Juan de Goyeneche and Aguerreverre acquired that it in 1782. At the moment it is soothes of the Central bank of Reserve in Arequipa.