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The Sillar Route: Why Arequipa is called the white city
The Sillar Route: Why Arequipa is called the white city
The Sillar Route: Why Arequipa is called the white city
The Sillar Route: Why Arequipa is called the white city
The Sillar Route: Why Arequipa is called the white city

The Sillar Route: Why Arequipa is called the white city

By Turismoi
Price is P 1,273 per adult
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Features
  • 4h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview
  • Discover why Arequipa is called the white city.
  • Learn about the carving and extraction process.
  • Enjoy the culture and experience of the stonemasons.
  • Sculptures, shields and many more pieces worked in ashlar.
  • Natural landscapes.

Activity location

  • Añashuayco
    • Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Pick up from your accommodation in Arequipa center.
    • 04001, Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru

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The Sillar Route: Why Arequipa is called the white city
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h4h
  • English
Starting time: 8:00
Price details
P 1,272.50 x 1 AdultP 1,272.50
Total
Price is P 1,272.50

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedTourism Guide.
  • What's includedWhat's includedTourist transportation.
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedGratuities.
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedGifts, souvenirs or personal purchases.
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedEntrance to the quarry - 5 PEN.
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedGratuities.

Know before you book

  • Pick up from your acommodation in Arequipa center.
  • For places outside (Arequipa) these limits, you must coordinate with the Operator the feasibility of your pick-up or meeting point or additional cost.
  • Not wheelchair accessible.
  • Infants must sit on laps.

What you can expect

If you would like to know where do they take the materials to build the nice buildings and all the Cathedral this is the place where you must go.

The workers they will show you and teach you how do they do it and how do they work the “sillar”.

ITINERARY:

8:00 am. Pick up from hotel or agreed meeting point.

We head towards Las Canteras de Añashuayco in the district of Cerro Colorado.

There work about 500 stonemasons, including men of up to 80 years and young people who inherit the family tradition, people who day by day with their combo and chisel and supported by a rope, extract the ashlar.

Nowadays, these quarries are also in a tourist circuit that shows the natural landscape and the living culture.

The process for the elaboration of the sillar is explained, the beginning of the cut of the ignimbrite or also known as “Piedra Volcánica Blanca”, with the explanation of each step with a master stonemason.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESAñashuayco
    • Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEPick up from your accommodation in Arequipa center.
    • 04001, Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru