Arequipa is a city located to the south of Peru and it extends over an oasis of 2300 meters over the sea level, surrounded by the desert and the high mountains. The presence of the Misti volcano, symbol of the city, is an inevitable reference point in its historical progress, because it has been built with the own volcanic stone, the same that gives the name at its popular appellative of “The White City”. Others peeks, almost always snowy, surround it: The Chachani, Picchu Picchu and a bit farther from there, the Coropuna mole-hill. To the north of Arequipa extends the spectacular Colca Valley, a scenic Andean valley endowed of founded towns in the colonial time. The Colca Canyon is one of the deepest of the world and residence of majestic condors which plane 3000 meters over the Colca river.

Declared Humanity Cultural Patrimony by UNESCO, this city of beautiful convents, temples and colonial residences, preserves also a great gastronomic richness, mixes of native products of the ancient pre-Columbian cultures Puquina, Collagua and Inca, with foods of European origin, which it has given a special mark to the Arequipeña food.