http://www.fertur-travel.com/arequipa_tours.html<br /><br />The Convent of the Recoleta was built by the Franciscan order in 1647.. <br />.. in Perus second largest city, Arequipa, in the neighborhood of Antiquilla.<br /><br />It contains several cloisters, a huge library of more than 20,000 rare books,<br />and museums featuring religious art, the Amazon and Pre-Columbian artifacts.<br /><br />It also houses a gallery of paintings from the Cusco School of religious art.
