Convents

Santa Catalina Nunnery. Arequipa, Peru.

35 soles entrance fee. 5 soles each for the tour.

In 1579, less than 40 years after the Spanish arrived in the city of Arequipa, the Santa Catalina de Siena Convent was founded. Since its inception, women from diverse social backgrounds have entered the convent to serve as cloistered nuns, never again to return to their homes and families.

Sister Ana de Los Angeles Monteagudo was a nun who lived in the convent up until her death in 1686. In 1985 she was beatified by Pope John Paul II.

I'm not sure what would of ever possessed someone to enter the Convent in those days.

The Convent now has 20 nuns left. Ages 18 to 96.

It's a beautiful place. "A city withing a city".

The entrance fees pay the maintance costs.

You call tell they don't run out of cash!