http://www.fertur-travel.com/arequipa_tours.html<br /><br />Arequipa is known as the White City of Peru.<br />Its a cradle of art, architecture and a historic bastion for intellectuals and writers.<br /><br />Many of the buildings are made from sillar, a white volcanic rock. It reflects an average of 300 days of sun a year, giving the city a bright, luminescent quality..<br /><br />The city center offers dozens of examples of colonial architecture, including the Casona Flores del Campo, the Jesuit Cloisters, and especially the Santa Catalina Convent and La Recoleta Monastery.<br />Both are repositories for some of South Americas finest Hispano-American religious art.<br /><br />Vast expanses of sierra and cone-shaped volcanoes surround the city with the imposing El Misti visible from most parks and plazas..
