Casa del Moral -Arequipa

Calle Moral 318. Visiting hours Mon-Sat 9am-5pm (holidays until 1pm)

One of the finest and best-preserved samples of baroque-mestizo civil architecture in Peru, the Moral house was built in 1733 by a Spanish noble. A sumptuous stone portal with heraldic emblems carved in sillar leads to the main patio, where the ancient blackberry tree, that gives its name to the house, grows.

The Casa del Moral houses a collection of oil paintings from the "Escuela Cusqueña" (School of Cusco), a colonial type art. Its library contains more than 3,000 volumes, primarily Hispanic literature. Particularly interesting the collection of antique maps. The house was restored in recent years.

 With exceprts from Wikipedia and PromPeru.