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Arequipa Walking Tour and Santa Catalina Monastery
Arequipa Walking Tour and Santa Catalina Monastery
Arequipa Walking Tour and Santa Catalina Monastery
Arequipa Walking Tour and Santa Catalina Monastery

Arequipa Walking Tour and Santa Catalina Monastery

By Tangol
Free cancellation available
Price is 694 kr per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview
  • Walking tour to the historic centre of Arequipa
  • Learn about the history of Arequipa with a tour guide
  • Walk along beautiful streets with amazing architecture
  • Explore the citadel of Santa Catalina Monastery
  • Get to know a UNESCO World Heritage

Activity location

  • Historic Center of Arequipa
    • Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Hotel Pickup
    • Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru

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Arequipa Walking Tour with Santa Catalina Monastery
  • Activity duration is 3 hours and 30 minutes3h 30m3h 30m
  • English

Live Commentary in English and Spanish. Select this option for the private tour.

Price details
693,93 kr x 1 Adult693,93 kr

Total
Price is 693,93 kr
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What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedGuided walking tour of Arequipa city
  • What's includedWhat's includedAdmission to Santa Catalina Monastery
  • What's includedWhat's includedReturn transport to and from your historic centre of Arequipa hotel
  • What's includedWhat's includedLive tour commentary provided in Spanish and English
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedMeals and drinks

Know before you book

  • Children 4 and younger are complimentary provided they sit on a parent's lap
  • This activity is not wheelchair accessible.
  • Return transport is available from most centrally located Arequipa hotels. Please arrange pickup from your hotel or a nearby location when you call to confirm your reservation.
  • This activity is suitable for all ages.
  • Please be ready and waiting in your hotel lobby 15 minutes prior to your scheduled pick-up time
  • If your hotel is not located at the Historic Centre, you should go to the meeting point located at Calle Zela 301, next to the Convent of Santa Catalina (Hotel Mirador del Monasterio).
  • At the end of the tour, we can drop you off at your hotel as long as it has good access and it is located within the Historic Centre. Otherwise, we can drop you off near your hotel.
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

What you can expect

After picking you up from the hotel located in the historic centre of Arequipa, you will start the walking tour in the area of San Lazaro, located just 5 blocks from the Plaza de Armas of Arequipa. This colonial hood has small streets and houses made of sillar, a volcanic stone used for constructions.

San Lazaro is an old district and you will admire its beauty through its lovely streets, small squares and white walls. This are had been occupied by pre Inca and Inca cultures and, during the Spanish conquer and city’s foundation, the first houses were built here.This district belongs to the Historic Centre of Arequipa, so it is considered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The tour continues to Barrio del Solar situated near the River Chilli where you will walk along beautiful streets with traditional and colonial buildings. You are going to explore different areas known as Tambos, lodging centers where merchants came to rest during the colonial era.

The first Tambo to visit will be Tambo El Matadero, a building from the seventeenth century that was used to sacrifice animals. Currently, there are about 30 families living in this place.The walking tour in Arequipa continues to Tambo La Cabezona, a colonial group of houses with a communal entrance dated from the sixteenth century and the place where one of the first mills in the city worked.

Enjoy a panoramic tour to Plaza de Armas, the main meeting point of locals and where the Cathedral of Arequipa is located. This beautiful square is surrounded by lovely portals and there is a bronze fountain in the middle.

After a short walk we are going to reach the Santa Catalina Monastery. This place was founded in 1579 and it has 20 thousand square metres distributed in cloisters, patios, squares, streets, bell tower and church.

During the viceroyalty, Doña Maria de Guzman was a rich woman and she decided to donate all her properties and start a live as a cloister nun. Most of the women came from wealthy families and, currently, there still are cloister nuns living at Santa Catalina Convent.

This is a beautiful place with a lot of history and you will have time to take nice photos. Walk around the streets made of ashlar and some parts with natural coloured red walls. You will visit many areas such as the Patio del Silencio, a place where the nuns met to pray and read the Bible in silence.

Get impressed with thisUNESCO World Cultural Heritage.Later, we are going to drop you off at your hotel.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESHistoric Center of Arequipa
    • Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEHotel Pickup
    • Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru