{"id":3909,"date":"2026-05-11T23:25:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:25:35","slug":"santa-catalina-silence-in-arequipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/video-journeys\/santa-catalina-silence-in-arequipa\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Catalina &#8211; Silence in Ciudad Blanca"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em>Silence &#8211; a Prayer &#8211; Colorful town within a town<\/em><\/h4>\n<iframe  id=\"_ytid_83799\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b7HhGhShk9E?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&controls=1&disablekb=0&color=red&cc_lang_pref=&rel=1&autohide=2&theme=dark&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Silencio \u2014 the word greets us at the gate of the Santa Catalina Monastery in Arequipa, <em>la Ciudad Blanca<\/em>. Inside lies a town within a town, its streets named Calle Toledo and Calle Sevilla. For centuries, wealthy families sent one of their daughters here to dedicate their lives to prayer and worship. The walls glow in colors from ocher brown to maritime blue, while orange trees in the patios shine in the nearly constant sun. We wander through rooms where nuns once lived in humble luxury, imagining how celestial sounds echoed through the cloisters. A dove drinks from a fountain \u2014 symbol of peace, water of life \u2014 as silence lingers in the painted streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silence &#8211; a Prayer &#8211; Colorful town within a town Silencio \u2014 the word greets us at the gate of the Santa Catalina Monastery in Arequipa, la Ciudad Blanca. Inside lies a town within a town, its streets named Calle Toledo and Calle Sevilla. For centuries, wealthy families sent one of their daughters here to&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[99,117],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-journeys","tag-atlantic-to-pacific","tag-video-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}