It is located 9 km approx from Arequipa downtown (20 minutes in car),  placed in a beautiful countryside, where the rivers Socabaya, Paucarpata and Postrero water an important land.
One of the more important and traditional mansions of the region, of Virreynal construction done with sillar (white volcanic stone) at the border of a cliff. It was built on XVIII century.  According to history, the founder of Arequipa Garcí Manuel de Carbajal, ordered to build it for his son.
The mansion after pass through several owners was sold on 1585 to Jesuitas Congregation who installed in the mansion like a country house, to rest and like a place for Spiritual Exercises.  They  Built the church, where there is the image of the outstanding Jesuita missionary, San Francisco Javier.  In 1785  Juan Crisóstomo de Goyoneche purchased The Mansion.  In 1821, the Archbishop Jose Sebátian de Goyeneche refurbish the church.
The rooms ans yards of this beautiful mansion, with colonial characteristics, “imaginary takes you to the colonial time".  It represents part of the history of Arequipa on their "changes of owners".  In 1987 it was open to the public for historical and touristic visits.