CIRQA
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Located in the historic centre of Arequipa, CIRQA shares an age-old bond with the San Agustín Church. Like the Church’s traditional parador, where monks would receive travellers with one-of-a-kind service and hearty cuisine, CIRQA was fervently inspired by the unbounded hospitality and ecclesiastical history that still define Arequipa to its core. Honouring this original concept, CIRQA is a place of both rest and fine cuisine. In the parador, travellers can embark on a myriad of excursions or choose to sample homegrown dishes in the several eating areas.
In 1540, the year in which Arequipa was built, the land was divided between its founders and the Spanish nobility of the time. The land on which CIRQA now sits, was granted to Alonso De Luque, a renowned scribe. He later bequeathed it to the Augustinian Order requesting to build a church with cloisters, patios, orchards and gardens as well as a sepulchre for him and his wife under the future altar of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino.
In 1540, the year in which Arequipa was built, the land was divided between its founders and the Spanish nobility of the time. The land on which CIRQA now sits, was granted to Alonso De Luque, a renowned scribe. He later bequeathed it to the Augustinian Order requesting to build a church with cloisters, patios, orchards and gardens as well as a sepulchre for him and his wife under the future altar of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino.
