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Excellent place to learn some history, highly recommender a tour guide since they are many facts you wouldn’t know about. Remember to take your camera and your walking shoes!!
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Date of experience: December 2020
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Be transported back in time as you freely explore this old monastery! I skipped the tour as I had limited time, but I enjoyed the liberty of walking around the vast property. I spent about an hour here but wished I could have stayed longer as it is so rich in history and so peaceful! …
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Date of experience: February 2020
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The monastery is like a city inside the city. You can get lost within the colorful painted walls of the complex and take amazing pictures without other tourists in them.
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Date of experience: March 2020
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If you have only time for one visit to a historic venue...look no further....this is it! The Monastery of Santa Catalina is a monastery of nuns of the Dominican Second Order. After we got our tickets we decided to hire one of the monastery's tour guide to take us around and inundate us with some history. The grounds have been kept very well. At it's peak there was close to 200 nuns living in this monastery from what we were told. There are still a handful of nuns that reside in the monastery currently. After 90 minutes of an insightful and leisurely tour we were allowed to roam around and wander on our own as there was no time limit. Highly Recommended!…
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Date of experience: January 2020
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Really an amazing site. If possible try to get a guide or book to tell you what you’re seeing. For example, even though this cloistered assembly of buildings was (and is still) for women, it’s properly a monastery, not a nunnery (just a little hint of stuff that is not what you might expect). And it’s so lovely! A total must see in Arequipa.…
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Date of experience: February 2020
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