Arequipa
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CITY TOUR AREQUIPA
About This Tour
With the “City Tour Arequipa”, you can get to know and enjoy the White City, and contemplate its colonial architectural monuments made of white ashlar and volcanic rocks. Also, get to know the most famous viewpoints that have panoramic views of the region. Enjoy our City Tour in Arequipa!
What to Pack
- Picture of your ID or passport.
- Water Bottle.
- Light clothes.
- Comfortable shoes.
- Cap.
- Sunscreen
- Sunglasses.
- Camera with extra battery.
What’s Included
- Pick up from your hotel in Arequipa.
- Tourist transportation to visit the viewpoints.
- Entrance to the Monastery of Santa Catalina.
- Certified bilingual guide (English - Spanish).
- Constant assistance.
- Meals & drinks.
- Travel insurance.
- Tips (optional).
Tour Plan
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- At the coordinated time, we will begin with pickup from your hotel.
- The tour will begin with a visit to the Carmen Alto district. From the Mirador, like a Carmen Alto experiential tourism, you can see in all its imposing figures the three volcanoes that surround the
White City of Arequipa: Misti (5,800 meters), Chachani (6,000 meters) and Pichu Pichu (5,300 meters), in addition to the beautiful countryside with its terraces. - On the Yanahuara tour, we will go down to visit the plaza, church and cloisters of the traditional and colonial district, with its large houses and typical alleys made with the typical white volcanic
ashlar made of stone and it is the reason why Arequipa has the nickname " White City". - We will continue entering the Historic Center, declared by UNESCO as a Cultural Heritage of Humanity, we will visit the Plaza de Armas Arequipa, to see tourist places on Arequipa tours surrounded by
its three granite portals with brick and lime vaults, and the central pool with a beautiful bronze fountain with three plates crowned with the figure of a 16th-century soldier, called "El Tuturutu." - Then we will see the Cathedral Basilica, considered one of the first religious monuments of neoclassical style, destroyed by a fire in 1844 and rebuilt in 1868. Its front is 107 meters long and is
decorated with 70 classical-style columns, two towers, and two bronze medallions. - We will visit the Convent of the Company of Jesus of the Jesuit order, the maximum expression of the religious architecture of the tours in Arequipa, where its church (year 1573) and the polychrome
Chapel of San Ignacio de Loyola stand out, as well as its cloisters with carved arches saddle. Its walls, domes, and pilasters look exuberant baroque and the altars and altarpieces are covered in gold
leaf. - Finally, we will visit the Monastery of Santa Catalina (year 1580), a citadel built in ashlar with an area of 20 thousand m2.
Note: This route may vary according to the scheduled time.
Maximum Altitude: 2,390 masl (7,600 feet).
Minimum Altitude: 2,330 masl (7,800 feet).
Difficulty degree: Low.
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