It's a huge complex built around 400 years ago. It took an 1 1/2 hours to get through the whole thing and see all the rooms. It was common for families to place one daughter in here whether she wanted to or not, so it was common for the women to be having affairs and not living the required lifestyle. A lot of them had servants too. The church made a rule at one point that said they could have one servant max before later disallowing servants all together.
There were many courtyards surrounded with paintings like these on the walls.
The rooms where they cooked were totally black and there were stairs everywhere to the roof. We had some great pictures from up there, but Aaron, our friend from Calgary, didn't have any on his camera, so dang it.
The complex included part of the old city that was next to the monastery. Here's an old Arequipan calle.
I seem to have run out of tidbits. But if you enjoy beauty even half as much as I do, that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
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