Museo Histórico Municipal

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The historical trajectory of both Arequipa and Peru is showcased in this educational, if unexciting, museum, split into different rooms dedicated to different epochs and their heroes. There’s pre-Hispanic, the independence era, the republic era and the War of the Pacific.

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