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(July 1, 2011). - Mario Vargas Llosa’s native city, Arequipa, will launch a cultural tourism route that will include the manor house where the 2010 Nobel Literature laureate was born, a library named after him, as well as other places that enable to know more about "the White City".

According to Arequipa’s regional manager of Foreign Trade and Tourism Rocío Cervantes, the increasing cultural movement towards the figure of the Peruvian writer leads to offer his fans a cultural tourism route that enables to know the place where he was born and where he learned his first customs.

The manor house where the author of The Dream of the Celt was born was recently declared cultural heritage of the country and will become a traditional and high-tech museum to receive its visitors next year.

“Peru is for me Arequipa, where I was born but never lived, a city that my mother, grandparents, aunts and uncles taught me to know through their memories and yearnings, because my entire family tribe, as Arequipa people tend to do, always carried the White City with them in their wandering existence,” said Vargas Llosa during his lecture delivered in Stockholm.

“Thanks to our prizewinner, we can prepare a cultural route together with a literary route; a tour of important figures (…) It’s a goal that we’ll achieve next year. We’ll begin with Mario Vargas Llosa but there will also be other routes of important figures who were born here,” Cervantes told Andina.

Source: www.andina.com.pe.