The Santa Catalina Monastery
The convent of Santa Catalina is a small citadel built in clay and sillar with magnificent fresco paintings that occupy an area of 20 thousand square meters and is divided into four neighborhoods, trying to emulate the Arequipa urban layout of the first years of the Colony.
Its architectural style is based on Spanish influence, but made with indigenous hands. Therefore, unlike other colonial public buildings, in Santa Catalina we can find the fusion of Spanish and indigenous elements, forming something original.