Monasterio Santa Catalina, Arequipa
The colonial religious ´Monasterio Santa Catalina´ has been a convent since 1580, very shortly after the spanish arrived, founded by a rich widow Maria de Guzman. It is a small enclosed city of narrow streets, false staircases, colonnaded cloisters and their individual living quarters and a hugh kitchen. There are rows of small confessionals attached to the church and a room of wooden grill windows where they could talk to the outside world and exchange (worldly) goods!
The nuns, from upper-class families (the second daughter of the family), had a ball holding music-parties and continuing to live the life they were accustomed to, until the strict dominican nun arrived in 1871!
posted by Lou @ 11:55 PM
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