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Arequipa
Walking City tour including the Monastery of Santa Catalina
- Duration3 hours
- Max Travelers8 people
- Free CancellationUp to 24 hrs
- CategoryArchaeology Tours, Cultural Tours
Overview
Discover the heart of Arequipa on this immersive walking tour. We begin at the vibrant San Camilo Market, a colorful hub of daily life filled with local products, flavors, and traditions. Then, stroll through charming streets toward the Main Square, where your guide will share the rich history of one of Peru’s most beautiful plazas. Visit the ornate Church and Cloister of La Compañía de Jesús, home to the stunning Saint Ignacio Cupola, a masterpiece of colonial art. Continue to a 17th-century tambo, a traditional communal housing complex that reveals the city’s colonial past. Finally, explore the breathtaking Santa Catalina Monastery, a city within the city, with over 300 years of fascinating history. Your guide will assist with your entry before bidding you farewell.
Gallery
What's included
Entrance to San Ignacio Cupola.
Entrance to Monastery of Santa Catalina.
Permanent assistance.
Professional English Guide.
What's Not included
Gratuities
Itinerary
Our tour begins visiting the popular market of San Camilo; declared Historical Heritage in l987 and where you can find many products such as groceries, flowers, clothes, and other quality items at low cost. This is a place full of color, activity, variety of flavors, that show a little bit the daily life of our city.
Then we will continue walking toward to the city center (Main Plaza) exploring the streets of the city center and arrive to Arequipau2019s Main Square, where your guide will give you a historical introduction of one of the most beautiful Peruvian main squares.
Weu2019ll continue our tour, visiting the church and cloister of La Compau00f1u00eda de Jesu00fas, this Cloister and Church are one whole unit, with semi-archways of heavy pilasters fully decorated on all four sides. Each sides exhibits identical reliefs, of three thick clusters of grapes, papayas, shells, cantutas, roses, grapes etc.nIn the Church we will visit the famous Cupola of Saint Ignacio; a chapel so beautiful that is an example of colonial Arequipean art.
We will walk to the Monastery of Santa Catalina; monument that belongs to the most important attractions of Arequipa city, keeping behind their malls more than three centuries of history.
Good to know
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.