Antigua Makes Me Happy — Take 19
Here’s another take on the series Antigua Makes Me Happy. Once again, I share a portrait of a Spanish student enjoying her …
Antigua Guatemala’s Flower-decorated Windows
Today, I share with you a window dressed up with flowers for Antigua’s Flower Festival. Enjoy!
Side Door of the former Cathedral Building
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Portón for large doorway. Just when I think I have shared with you every nook …
Antique Doors of Antigua Guatemala
As I have said before, “every block of Antigua Guatemala provides opportunities to capture stylish doors. I was already hook on doorways …
Architectonic Details of Antigua Guatemala — Door and Window
We continue with the game of discovering of architectonic details. As explained previously, with each new post I share an architectonic detail …
Architectonic Details of Antigua Guatemala — Baroque Door and Façade
Let’s retake the discovery game we had in previous years. With each new post I will share an architectonic detail from Antigua …
Antique Door of Antigua Guatemala
Every block of Antigua Guatemala provides opportunities to capture fabulous doorways. I was already hook on doorways from Antigua Guatemala before I …
Door Christmas Decorations
Needless to say 2020 is an atypical year. But somethings we can still do, such as put Christmas decorations and lights everywhere …
Antigua Fragments: Corner Doorway
As you take strolls around Antigua Guatemala you may encounter corner doors and windows; have you seen them? If so, which is …
Ironworks on Wooden Door from Antigua Guatemala
Take a photographic tour through the many different doors found in Antigua Guatemala; there are over 130 entries so far. Enjoy!
Gorgeous green and red door from Antigua Guatemala
I believe this photograph can be a terrific wall art decor piece for your home or office or to give as present …
Details of a Blue Door from Antigua Guatemala
One of the things I enjoy the most during my morning photo walks are the abundance of beautiful doors, door knockers and …
Entrance Doorway to Casa Pensativo
There is something that I find attractive in this entrance gateway. Perhaps it is the metal jade plant blossom decoration, the lamps, …
Corner Vista from Antigua Guatemala
Okay, here’s a little challenge for you guys. Who can tell me which corner this is, I mean what street and avenue …
Have You Seen This Nine Doors House at Calle del Arco?
Honestly, have you noticed this 9-door house on your strolls through Calle del Arco? If you would like to see one of …
Architectonic Details of Antigua Guatemala — Colonial Style Wooden Doorway
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Portón or large doorway. This is one of better looking portones in Antigua Guatemala. …
Metal Window Grates from Antigua Guatemala
Even though the original widow grates were carved in wood, nowadays the majority of window grates are made with iron, forged iron …
Arched Double Arched Doors Entrance
Believe it or not, I began the Doors & Window of Antigua Guatemala on May 4th, 2006. There have been many memorable …
Architectonic Details of Antigua Guatemala — Baroque Doorway
Let’s continue with the discovery game of this week. Each day I will share an architectonic detail from Antigua Guatemala and you …
Antigua Secrets Hidden In Plain Sight — Cellular Towers
Another element that is hidden in plain sight in Antigua Guatemala is the omnipresent cellular tower, which is camouflaged as a garbage deposit [black box hanging from the light poles]. If you pay close attention though, you will notice that there are vents, the boxes are slightly bigger and there is no opening to deposit the trash…
Quotidian Vistas from Antigua Guatemala — Windows with Flowers
By the way, I just read this coming week will be one of the coldest in decades in the U.S. and Canada and here now we walk around like it were Summer. So, I wonder what are you still suffering, come on down to enjoy our warm Winter season…
Take A Photo Tour of Doors from Antigua Guatemala
Even though it’s been a while since I shared with you a picture of doors from Antigua Guatemala, I knew I had …
Typical Vistas from Antigua Guatemala
People walking in front protruding windows with forged metal crate that enclosed pots with evergreen plants is as typical vista of Antigua …
Windows in Antigua Guatemala
It’s been a while since I posted an entry in the Doors & Windows category. Today I bring you one of the …
Independence Day Decorations in Antigua Guatemala
As I have shared with you before, September 15 is the date to celebrate Guatemala’s Independence Day. Heck, to be correct, actually …
The big tall doors of Antigua Guatemala
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Portón for large doorway. Not only in churches and convents you find large tall …
Antigua Guatemala Door Textures
It’s time to share the textures of the doors of Antigua Guatemala with you again. I liked the contrast of the diagonal …
Architecture of Antigua Guatemala — Windows and Arches
Nearly four thousands days ago when I started Antigua Daily Photo, I focused a lot on the architecture of Antigua Guatemala. Of …
The Colors of La Antigua Guatemala
Here’s a simple façade that shows some of the colours of La Antigua Guatemala. This façade was captured in the village of …
Portón of La Antigua Guatemala
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day from Antigua Guatemala: Portón or gate, or large door. It’s been a while since …
-5 Days to 9th Anniversary: Double Door Archway
This rare double-door arched doorway is found in Calle del Arco. This picture of the double door archway makes a perfect addition …
Doorway for Casa de los Abuelitos
How many enchanting places can we find in Antigua Guatemala if we dare to explore every little corner and alley. Do you …
Texture of Antique Metal and Wood from Antigua Guatemala
There’s a lot of beauty on the doors and windows around Antigua Guatemala. One, must stop often to really take in the …
Luxurious Doorway from Antigua Guatemala
Honest, I am making justice to the beauty and elegance of this doorway, but I want to share with you simplicity of …
Doorway into the Raw Past
This week I felt through a rabbit hole, a doorway into the raw textured past of Convento Las Capuchinas. Come back tomorrow …
Antique door with tiny window from Antigua Guatemala
What I like so much about the antique doors from Antigua Guatemala is their texture, character, the imperfections, the beauty, and that …
Fancy Colonial Style Window from Antigua Guatemala
Those of you with architectural knowledge could you share with the rest of us what kind of window is this? I find …
Small Balcony in Antigua Guatemala
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. —Shakespeare
Guatemalan Baroque Entrance
Now, be honest, don’t you wish this was the entrance to your home? I know I do. I normally like very minimalist …
Façade and Entrance of Casa Convento Concepción
After close to twenty thousands images in my photographic library about Antigua Guatemala often I still come across many things or buildings …
Yet Another Gated Community Entrance
Here are some of the answers to the questions asked on the previous posts regarding gated communities. Occupy Antigua Guatemala? Definitely not …
Another Gate Community Entrance
Here’s yet another typical entrance for a gated community around Antigua Guatemala. What do your think about gated communities? Are they a …
Gated Community Entrances
It seems that all the real estate developing around Antigua Guatemala are just gated communities; these are like mushrooms, the spring up …
Textured Red Wall with a Window
If you have followed the daily updates of AntiguaDailyPhoto for a while you would know that here we only served rich saturated …
Estadio Municipal de Fútbol Hunapú in Ciudad Vieja
If you took a trip through the archives of AntiguaDailyPhoto, you will come to realization that fútbol is the most popular sport …
Colorful Doors: Red
The category of Doors and Windows has always been among the most popular. It seems that people find fascinating many of doorways …
Architectonic Details: Octagonal Windows
I swear I could do a series just on unusual windows found in Antigua Guatemala. As a matter of fact, when I …
Garden Under The Rain
Here’s a rainy season vista from A Room With A View. Believe it or not, La Antigua Guatemala always shows its most …
Window Gardens
In other places of the world, windows are just windows. In La Antigua Guatemala windows are shop displays, gardens, pet spots, plant …
Pearls and Pans
I can almost think of the image above as window conceptual art. The combination of the pearls, the manikins, and the pan …
Mailbox: Letters Wanted
Today AntiguaDailyPhoto.com is celebrating its fifth anniversary. Also, the CityDailyPhoto community around the world is having the monthly theme day which is …
Cathedral’s Arched Doorways
It’s been a while since I shared with you a shot of a doorway. For a long time, doorways and windows used …
Doorlocks
Isn’t it just engaging to run into so many different doorlocks around La Antigua Guatemala? This one is found in one of …
Let Me Out!
I would also want out with such a gorgeous day. This beautiful dog was so peaceful and enjoying the breeze that it …
The Rainiest Year Ever
This has to be the rainiest year ever in my entire life. I had never ever seen so much rainfall. After several …
Forged Metal Door Knocker
How can one find beauty in such a rustic forged metal knocker? I don’t know, but the instant I saw it I …
Amantes a La Antigua
Do you believe this couple will also record their names interlocked inside a heart as proof their present love?
A Room With A View
Don’t we all would love to have a room with a view? Even though this is not my daily view, I can’t …
A Room With A Window
Arched windows are quite common in La Antigua Guatemala; I am sure I have shown you one arched window before, but I …
Everybody Walks in LAG
Oh leave it to the French and their Je ne sais quoi, yo no sé que in Spanish, to describe something the …
The Gatekeeper
Sometimes the ride from Guate city (la capital) to LAG takes a bit longer than expected and then there is not enough …
Typical Architectonic Details from Antigua
A quick search for architectonic details throws beams, arches, baroque elements, Spanish-tile roofs, windows, doorways, et-cetera. Each an individual entry showing a …
Costumbrism Photographs From Antigua
Okay, here is my contribution to the Costumbrism Photographs From La Antigua Guatemala. What better specimen for the costumbrism photography of Antigua …
Lent Decorations over Doorways
I really like the Lent decorations you find over doorways and windows in La Antigua Guatemala. Lent or Cuaresma in Spanish is …
Corner Window in Antigua Guatemala
Detalles, details, detalles. Take a corner window, add a forged iron crate and a few plants and you have transformed a boring …
Antigua’s Window Grate
Details, details, details. Often you find little windows on the doorways of the houses of La Antigua Guatemala and most often they …
There Goes 2008
That’s it. As the sun sets today we will be waving goodbye to 2008. I want to take this opportunity to thank …
Fake Door on Sidewall
I don’t get it, why would anyone would go through the hassle of building a fake door, then painting it to look …
Guatemalan Independence Day Bunting
As the Guatemalan Independence Day approaches, one begins to see all the bunting in windows and doorways around Antigua Guatemala. Since Jeff …
Old Window Cage
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That’s certainly the case for the window above. This is not everybody’s cup of …
What Was the Old Man Thinking?
I wonder what was going through the old man’s mind while watching the young tourist with flip flops (thongs) and short shorts. …
Narrow Arched-doorway in Antigua
Sure, La Antigua Guatemala is a nearly-quincentennial city and you may be inclined to believe after some strolls around Antigua that nothing …
Niños de Guatemala Sign
If I started a series about the NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) headquartered in La Antigua Guatemala, one per day, I could probably …
Contrast, Contrast, Contrast
Photography 101: capture contrast. Well, that’s another easy task around La Antigua Guatemala. Here you can find contrast in color, between the …
Men looking out from a window
Sometimes you just feel blue, other times you simply feel red.
Resting Bench to Meditate in Antigua
After having spent a slow afternoon going over every little piece at the “Los Desaparecidos” Exhibit (The Disappeared) now showing at the …
Window’s Vista in La Antigua Guatemala
This window’s vista visual style is marvelous. You get textures, flowers, reflections, translucency, easy access, just to name a few features. However, …
Old-looking Wood and Metal Door in La Antigua Guatemala
Often enough, I come across a door that just makes me stop, open my backpack and pull out the camera to capture …
JennyStar DVD Rentals in Antigua
JennyStar DVD Rentals is the Netflix of La Antigua Guatemala. JennyStar DVD Rentals is what happens when you think through a good …
El Quinto Sol Entrance
We continue our tour of the remains of the Holy Week by showing how flores de papel (paper flowers) are use to …
The Remains of Holy Week
Well, it seems like the color purple will be with us for a while longer. The flowers above are known colloquially as …
The Remains of Lent
Many purple and violet banners are still hanging from doorways and windows around town. It feels like many don’t want to let …
Entrance to Finca San Agustin Las Cañas
The Spring Season began a few days ago, so I’ve read somewhere {ñ}. Guatemala’s slogan is the Land of the Eternal Spring, yet in this country Spring has never showed up. As a matter of fact, Guatemala’s weather does not follow the ‘normal’ seasons. Instead, Guatemala has a dry and a wet seasons. The wet season begins in May and ends towards the last days of October; the remaining months are the dry season. So in about 40 days the rainy season will begin in Guatemala and the whole country will be wearing an intense verdurous foliage dress. If you ever decide to visit Guatemala, make sure you bring dark sunglasses because the adjective intense accompanies every shade of the color hue.
Window Convenience Store
Everybody wants to have the recipe for the Guatemalan Identity. Adopting parents, ONGs, researchers, scientists, writers, poets and even Guatemalan bloggers want …
New Paint Job for the Holy Week
Well, like always, not everything is bad about the Holy Week in La Antigua Guatemala. If you can obviate the crowds, the …
Wood Carving Patterns
Old worn out wood can be beautiful too. I think. What about you?
Corner Doorway at La Casa Amarilla
If you can have a corner window, why not have a corner door, really why not? Can you tell me why doorways …
Valentine’s Day in La Antigua Guatemala
Valentine’s Day in Guatemala is known as El Día del Cariño. Cariño and caress share the same etymology and it means affection. The Day of Affection would be a close translation for El Día del Cariño, thus it is much more than Valentine’s Day because it is the day to show your affection, love and appreciation to your co-workers, neighbors, friends, family, and of course, your girlfriend or girlfriend; whatever the case may be.
Christmas Window Dressing in La Antigua Guatemala
Does anybody know when will the Christmas decorations will be put away? The answer is in last year’s entries… go happy hunting now.
Casa del Conde Doorway at Night
The Casa del Conde doorway is bound to bring some tears and sweet nostalgic memories to many of LAGDP visitors. See, La …
First Christmas Signs of 2007
Poinsettias or Flor de Pascua are in full bloom in The Land of the Eternal Spring for the Christmas season. Commercial decorations are beginning to show up in shops and restaurants. Soon enough we will have the Burning of the Devil celebrations, Nacimientos, Posadas and everything else that comes with the Christmas season. Soon, even the trees will dress for the holidays.
In Search of the La Naranja Pelada
The first time I ever heard about La Naranja Pelada (The Peeled Orange) was at Inner Diablog, a blog published from London but filled with hindsight and hard-to-find information about Guatemala. On top of all, Guy writes so eloquently that it is a pleasure to read his entries. Honest, this blog and his writing is an inspiration for me. Check it out!
In the area around Antigua the best ceviches are to be found in a small seafood restaurant on a backstreet of Jocotenango called La Naranja Pelada. The dining room is wood-panelled and decorated with specimens of local ‘game’ such as snakes, turtles and armadilloes. (source: Inner Diablog)
Transnational: Eat fresh
I think this Subway franchise will have to use its second slogan: The Way A Sandwich Should Be because the Eat fresh may not work in a place like Antigua Guatemala, where most places serve REAL fresh food. With all of these transnational fast-food restaurants in La Antigua Guatemala, we still have to make a run for the border or drive to Guatemala City if we’d like to think outside the bun while enjoying a bean and cheese burrito.
Hotel Arizona Doorway
The La Antigua Guatemala city ordinances requires that the name of businesses be in Spanish. Some business have dual names like Rainbow Cafe which was forced to change to Café Arcoiris (although they kept Rainbow Cafe at a smaller size within the sign). Backpackers Hotel became Mochileros Hotel and so on. For the most part, I agree with this city ordinance because the La Antigua Guatemala is protected by national and international laws since it was declared by UNESCO as World Heritage.
Jungle Party Sign in Antigua
Okay, I don’t have much to say today. Or, rather there’s plenty to say, but not enough time to write it up. So, we take a break and pleasure in a soothing image of dog enjoying the late afternoon rain.
Best wishes for the upcoming weekend, everyone!
The Guatemalan Flag Should Be This Blue…
Thanks to our resourceful readers now we know exactly what shade of blue should the Guatemalan Flag should be. Manolo provided us with the exact Guatemalan Congress Act 104-97, available as a PDF download, which determines the color blue as ISCC-NBS 177. Then, Manolo, who felt like procrastinating, decided that ISCC-NBS 177 was not something most people could understand as Celestial Blue, so he gave us a web site address where we could look at the specific shade of blue. He went even futher, and submitted the HTML codes #4285B4 and #4997D0 for the Guatemalan flag blue. Xensen, took this information and came back with Pantone Matching System 297 and 298 and a link to get an idea of the color. So with all this information at our disposal, we now know what the official blue should be used in the Guatemalan Flag (like the photo below). But, like I said yesterday, “… Reality dictates that the Guatemalan flag can be blue, any blue really, with or without the emblem or coat of arms.”
Framed Head in Compañía de Jesús
Back to the Compañía de Jesús building to see the photo exhibit Punto de fuga by some of my favorite photo journalists: Sandra Sebastián, Moisés Castillo and Andrea Aragón. Since I had promised to come back to this magnificent example of antigüeño architecture and show it to you, I took a few more shots. This window frame is the first of this mini-series or the continuation of the Compañía de Jesús building series. Either way, let me know what you think of it. Boy, La Antigua Guatemala is so full of these wonderful vistas.
Arched Doorway in Calle de Chipilapa
A simple old and weathered arched doorway in Calle de Chipilapa. Believe it or not, there’s a matching window photo belonging to the same house… can you tell us under what name or date was published?