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Nightlife and entertainment
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It's often hard to distinguish between
bars
, restaurants and
nightclubs
(or
discos
, as most are referred to), as many restaurants have a bar and live music while many bars and clubs also serve food. The welcoming
peAħa
restaurants, for example, concentrated along Santa Catalina, often have better, more traditional music than either the bars or clubs. These reflect Arequipa's very strong tradition of folk singing and poetry and folk musicians will wander from
peAħa
to
peAħa;
the most authentic music of the region is
YaravA
singing, usually lamenting vocalists accompanied by a guitar. Most
peAħas
open Thursday to Saturday from 8.30pm to midnight, while discos and nightclubs, many just a couple of blocks from the Plaza de Armas on Palacio Viejo, open nightly until the early hours and usually charge a small entrance fee (around $2.50).
Arequipa's
cinema
scene is based around the Cine Portal, Portal de Fores 112 and the Cine Fenix, General Moran 104. Otherwise the
cultural institutes
put on occasional programmes, especially the Instituto Cultural Peruano-Aleman, San Juan de Dios 202, which shows good films in Spanish and German and sometimes has children's theatre. Also worth a try are the Alianza Francesa, opposite Santa Catalina Monastery, and the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norte Americano, Melgar 109. Other useful information
for tourists (each section contains more specific sub-sections): |
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Peru,
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