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PERU | Thursday, 10 January 2008 | Views [411]

Military parade through the Plaza de Armas on Sunday morning in Arequipa. Nearly every division of the army was represented and marched through in full dress uniform with weaponary while singing the Peruvian national anthem.

This is Plaza De Armas in Arequipa. It´s one of the prettiest square´s we have seen in Peru. Everyone comes to hang out and have an ice-cream, relax and read the newspaper.

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This is inside Monasterio Santa Catalina. This Monastery takes up an entire block and was built in 1580 by a wealthy widow who chose her nuns from the richest Spanish families. She also had local nuns that lived there but she did not approve of their lifestyles. After three centuries of sisters living with very lenient rules a nun from the Dominican Rupublic arrived to enforce strict new guidelines. It was a very mysterious place that the public was forbidden to enter until it was forced to open in 1970. It is a beautiful place filled with narrow twisting streets, tiny fruit filled plazas and hidden staricases. It´s a place distinctly based on Spanish culture and arcitecture.

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