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Arequipa

Other Peruvians joke that you need a different passport to enter Peru’s second-largest city. One-tenth the size of Lima, Arequipa is its pugnacious equal in terms of cuisine, historical significance and confident self-awareness.

Floodlit twin bell towers of the Basilica Cathedral of Arequipa on the Plaza de Armas under a pink sunset sky, Peru

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