Arequipa has a historical monastary. I took the guided tour, and it was VERY interesting. This used to be the place for rich Spanish families to send their daughters. The families paid a large dowry to the convent. The nuns had servants and all sorts of ammenities. The pope found out about the goings on after about 100 years and cleaned up their sister act. The complex is quite extensive. In it's hayday, 500 people lived inside the walls, including servants.
There are some clever things that they used to do here. For instance, they made natural water filters from the porous volcanic rock here. It can give to a few gallons of microbe free water in about 7 hours.
The convent also housed a unique nun, who successfully predicted when people were going to die. All of her predictions came true. A bishop protected her from being persecuted as a witch. Some years after here death. Her cremated ashed were given to an advanced stage cancer patient. The patient ate the ashes and was cured. Apparently, this is a medically confirmed miracle.
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