Casa del Moral
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The "Casa del Moral" (House of the Moral), located in the city of Arequipa in southern Peru, is a large ancestral house built around 1730. 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.
