<p class="MsoNormal">Twilight brings crowds to the Plaza de Armas—and its neoclassical cathedral—in Arequipa, a center for Andean textiles.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Read more in "The Golden Yarn" in the May 2013 issue of&nbsp;<em>National Geographic Traveler.</em></p>

Evening in Arequipa

Twilight brings crowds to the Plaza de Armas—and its neoclassical cathedral—in Arequipa, a center for Andean textiles.

Read more in "The Golden Yarn" in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic Traveler.

Photograph by Beth Wald

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