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The '"Casa del Moral"' (House of the Moral) is a large ancestral house built around 1730 in Arequipa, Peru. Often visited by most tourists to the city, it is one of the best as well as best-preserved samples of baroque-mestizo civil architecture in Peru. The name of the house derives from the emblematic presence of a centennial tree of "moras" (blackberries) in the center of the main patio of the large house.
The ''Casa del Moral'' houses a collection of paintings from the "Escuela Cusqueña" (School of Cusco), a colonial type art. Its library contains more than 3,000 volumes, primarily hispanic literature. The restoration of the house was due to the help of the Consul of England in Arequipa in recent years; the house is currently the property of the Peruvian bank Bancosur.

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★ Santa Catalina Monastery

★ Goyeneche Palace

★ Arequipa, ciudad de luz y terremoto

★ Sachaca, pueblo tradicional de Arequipa

★ “Casa del Moral” - in Spanish

★ AQPlink - in Spanish