Travel Arequipa Normally Arequipa is also known as the "Ciudad Blanca" (White City) for the numerous and magnificent constructions of temples, convents, big houses and palaces in white ashlar sculpted as filigree. It also possesses an excellent climate with almost 300 days of sun a year, with transparent blue sky. The downtown of the city, placed on the World Cultural Heritage list by UNESCO
Three volcanoes dominate the panorama, the Misti, the Chachani and the Pichu Pichu, the countryside, the Andean valleys and the Colca Canyon (the deepest canyon in the world) are part of its unique attractiveness. In Arequipa you will find a diversity of the kingdom of the flora and fauna (home of the exotic condor).
The city of Arequipa was founded, or at least re-founded, on August 15 1540, by Francisco Pizarro's envoy, and in 1541 the king of Spain gave the city the title of Villa Hermosa - beautiful city.
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