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Museo Histórico Municipal

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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