The City tour in Arequipa starts, at the previously agreed time, we will pick you up from your hotel in the historic center of Arequipa.
We will start this city tour in Arequipa, the first place to visit will be the district of Carmen Alto.
From the viewpoint, you will be able to appreciate in all its imposing figure the three volcanoes that surround the white city of Arequipa: Misti (5,800 meters), Chachani (6,000 meters) and Pichu Pichu (5,300 meters), as well as the beautiful countryside with its terraces.
Then we will go down to visit the square, church and cloisters of the traditional and colonial district of Yanahuara, with its large houses and typical alleys made with the typical and white sillar, volcanic tuff made stone and that is the reason why Arequipa has the nickname of "White City".
Continuing we will enter the Historic Center, declared by UNESCO as Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Then we will visit the Plaza de Armas, surrounded by its three granite portals with brick and lime vaults, and the central fountain with a beautiful bronze fountain with three plates crowned with the figure of a soldier of the sixteenth century, called "El Tuturutu".
Then we visited the Arequipa Cathedral Basilica (1656), considered one of the first religious monuments, neoclassical style, destroyed by fire in 1844 and rebuilt in 1868. Its front has a length of 107 meters and is decorated with 70 columns of classical style, two towers and two bronze medallions.
Then we went to the Convent of the Company of Jesus built by the Jesuits, maximum expression of religious architecture where its church (1573) and the polychrome Chapel of San Ignacio de Loyola, as well as its cloisters with arches carved in ashlar, typical white volcanic stone. Its walls, domes and pilasters show an exuberant baroque style and the altars and altarpieces are covered and bathed in gold leaf.
Finally we visit the Monastery of Santa Catalina (1580), a citadel built in ashlar with an area of 20 thousand m2.
