the city is the ""legal capital of peru"" and ""official headquarters of the constitutional court"," as a result of a decentralizing project. due to the military coup that occurred in peru at the end of the 1960s, the initiative was abandoned. then, it was retaken after the election of the constituent assembly in 1978. this time, the initiative did not succeed due to the high opposition, but later concluded that arequipa would host the then "constitutional court", as stated in article 304 º of the constitution of peru, 1979: ""the constitutional court is based in the city of arequipa "."