One of the biggest architectural and historical attractiveness in Arequipa, is the Monastery of nuns of cloister of Santa Catalina, located in the historical center, very close to the Square of Weapons. THE Viceroy Toledo in 1575 collaborated with the project of the monsaterio so that in him maidens can enter with religious vocation, which many times were accompanied by the personnel to its service, in some cases several women presumably of indigenous origin or mestizo.
> Square of Weapons and Cathedral
The Square of Weapons is the nucleus of the urban life of Arequipa. It is located in the central position of the original damero traced by the Spanish conquerors. It is famous for the symmetrical harmony and architectural dominion of their double arequería that it forms an imposing group next to the building of the Cathedral. In her they have been carried out the essential facts of the colonial and republican history of the city. The Square has suffered several transformations from its original conception, so much the form of the arcade like the facade and towers of the Cathedral. The testimonies historical acquaintances demonstrate, however that has been possible to preserve the excellence of their initial stages.
> The Countryside
The valley of the river Chili, opens up in a great extension to the center of which is the city. The wide surface next to cultivations of high productivity has determined the development of an intense rural life of a population of "chacareros" active that constantly move among the small towns of the area. The field is put in the sun and fertile, always presided over by the Misti to whose skirts, Arequipa in fact extends. For their height and symmetrical fiigura and their near presence, the volcano, surrounded of the Chachani and the Pichu Pichu, is center of the rural landscape made of cultivated parcels of medic, wheat, potatoes, corn, flowers and abundant bovine livestock.
> The Countryside
Sabandía is located to 8 km to the south of the city of Arequipa, in the road one can observe the wide andenerías and the three volcanos (the Misti, the Chachani and the Pichu Pichu) that give mark to the landscape that surrounds this traditional town.
The Mill of Sabandía, built in 1785, represents the typical architecture of the region in which the use of the ashlar prevailed. They are characteristic their solid buttresses and rustic balconies. Also, the techniques can be appreciated used to process the wheat, process that is carried out with the enormous stone wheels.
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> Beach of Camana
It is the capital of the county of the same name. Dista of Arequipa 180 Km ., for the Pan-American highway that you/they can be traveled in 3 hours. It is the place where the Spaniards were founded originally, the Beautiful Villa" in 1539, transferring to the valley of Arequipa then in 1540. The city of Arequipa had, its first cradle of this riquísimo and extensive valley of Camaná.
Camaná: Their tourist resources are of type physical recreacional. Their climate is pleasant, relatively hot in summer and temperate the rest of the year. For that reason the beaches of Camaná are very converged in the season of December to March. In the spa of The Tip Camaná is a population practically in the same beach, with totora housings and cane, and even some of noble material.
