After successfully building Arica’s Cathedral of San Marcos, Gustav Eiffel’s French company Eiffel & Cie was commissioned to design the Custom House. Those red and white striped bricks where prefabricated and then sent from Paris where they were assembled in 1874. It is now the House of Culture. This museum displays art and photographs. The Casa de la Cultura was dedicated to a scholar, writer and historian of Arica named Alfredo Raiteri Cortés after he died in 1974.
