Monasterio Santa Catalina

This is a beautiful monastery in Arequipa, one of the biggest of south America! (20.000 square meters)

It is dated from the 16th century and build by the Spanish. There are still living nons here. There is clearly Spanish influence since all the street names are cities from Spain. The monastery could host 450 nons at the same time.

Our guide was a really stiff lady and not so funny but she could explain a lot about the history of how the nons lived.Read more