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Santa Catalina Monastery (Arequipa, Peru)

 

Newest Review: ... shake-up did far more damage than the earthquakes. The nuns' numbers dwindled and funds ran short. In 1970, unable to afford to install electricity and running water as civic ordinances required, the remaining community withdrew to one small section of the convent, and opened the rest to paying visitors. Nearly all of the older and more interesting buildings can now be seen. * Visiting today * Within the walls, the convent is a maze of cloisters, plazas, passages and alleys. To find one's way around, it is essential to have a plan of the layout. Nearly all the buildings are single-storey, presumably as a safeguard against ear... more

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Crowned Review Santa Catalina Monastery (Arequipa, Peru): The Price of Peacefulness (1799 words)
by duncantorr - written on 26.03.08 (Very useful, 241 readings)
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The convent of Santa Catalina doesn't look much from the outside. Its long outer wall blanks off one side of an otherwise busy street near Arequipa's central square. Arequipa is known as the "white city" because much of it is built of sillar, the local white volcanic stone, but time has stained the convent's porous sillar exterior a dingy grey. The effect is not so much forbidding as simply unappealing, unwelcoming. Still, as Arequipa's main tourist attraction, the convent was one of the reasons for our having diverted to the city on our way up to the Inca remains in the Andes, so we waited for a lull in the predatory onrush of taxis, crossed the ...

 

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