It’s nice to see colonial pilas and lavaderos (water tanks + washbasins) being used now as fountains and as decoration. If you want to see a pila as decoration follow the white rabbit to The Venerable Colonial Pila is Now Used as Decoration. If you want to see colonial pila being used as a fountain … Read more
Business owners take note, how do you take something as mundane as a parking lot and turn it into a delightful experience? Put art there and everywhere! This is the last of the mini series about artistic sculptures found in the green areas surrounding the parking lot at Santo Domingo del Cerro. I hope you … Read more
I really like these ceramic sculptures found in the green areas of Santo Domingo del Cerro. I especially like this rabbit. I am always writing “Follow the white rabbit” in the posts as a way of saying follow the links. Now, I have some questions that I need you to answer: Do you ever follow … Read more
These beautiful and playful sculptures can be found in the green areas of Santo Domingo del Cerro, one of my favorite destinations around Antigua Guatemala for a side trip full of art, peace and delicious food. Make sure you include a trip to Santo Domingo del Cerro; they provide free shuttles which you can take … Read more
I know that to keep abundant richly verdant mountains in Guatemala we have to have a 6-month rainy season. But, enough is enough, ya basta; we don’t need to have a full week of constant rains. Too much rain is not good for Guatemala either since too much rain breaks the country’s infrastructure, people’s lives are at risk with so many landslides, overflowing rivers and the collapsing of some bridges.
Just take a look at the report about the state of roads in Guatemala by PROVIAL at 6am. PROVIAL, short for Protección y Seguridad Vial (Road Protection and Safety), is part of the Ministerio de Comunicaciones, Infraestructura y Vivienda (CIV) or Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing. You can request information about the state of any given road in Guatemala or follow the punctual updates by @Provial in Twitter or by dialing 1520.
According to Efraín Enrique Recinos Valenzuela biography at his official website and at Wikipedia, he was born in 1928 in Xela, the informal name of Quetzaltenango City, Guatemala’s second largest city. Later on, he moved to Guatemala City to continue his studies and pretty much stayed for the remainder of his life. Efraín Recinos also worked extensively in Antigua Guatemala where you can find some his work at Santo Domingo del Cerro and at Casa Santo Domingo.
On Sunday, October 2, 2011, we said our goodbyes to Efraín Recinos, Guatemala’s most extraordinary and prolific artist. A Google search throws so much about Efraín Recinos that one may need a few days to get a glimpse of this prolific Guatemalan Picasso as described in the quoted text below.
Efrain Recinos, Guatemalan muralist, sculptor, engineer and architect, who among many other buildings designed the National Theatre in Guatemala City. On one of my first trips into the city, I saw, experienced and fell in love with his work, as it proudly embellished the many of the national buildings in Guatemala City. This was my first exposure to his work, but after much exploration throughout the city, I was surprise every time my friend Juan Pablo said, “that’s designed by Efrain Recinos too”.
Here I share with you a slide show of some of his works found in Santo Domingo del Cerro. Click the four departing arrows icon inside the presentation to get a full screen slide show.
Below there’s a guided tour through the history of art in 89 portraits by Efraín Recinos who explains why he decided to realized such portraits. This tour goes by the name of Difusores Acústicos.
Here’s a marimba sculpture found in Santo Domingo del Cerro representing Guatemala’s national musical instrument. How you like it? He aquí una foto de la escultura de la marimba que se encuentra en Santo Domingo del Cerro; una representación artística del la marimba, el instrumento nacional de Guatemala. ¿Qué les parece?
Believe it or not, there have been sightings of Bigfoot in La Antigua Guatemala. If also want to see Bigfoot on your next visit to La Antigua Guatemala, then take one of the shuttles to Santo Domingo del Cerro. See, here in Antigua Guatemala we make everything really convenient and trouble-free for you. 😉 Can … Read more
Before you leave Santo Domingo del Cerro, make sure you make a couple strategic stops, especially around the heliport to take some panoramic pictures from La Antigua Guatemala. In the picture above, we get an bird’s eye view of the Santo Domingo residential neighborhoods, which are located to right, on Calle de los Duelos, of … Read more
The gourmet pizzas below are the creations of excutive chef of Santo Domingo restaurants Mario Enrique Campollo who is famous for creating international cuisine dishes combined with local ingredients. Mario Campollo began working for the Santo Domingo in 1991 as a cook when Santo Domingo was just a restaurant. As Casa Santo Domingo grew into … Read more
For artists, limitations are only proof that creativity knows no limits. Take for instance simple garden tools and look at what an artist can create. Today’s sculpture is one more sample of the large selections of sculpture available in Santo Domingo del Cerro.
Can you believe that they have even created a sculpture of the El Tenedor del Cerro logo? As you can see in the foreground, the metal sculpture is huge. Also, in the background you can see a red chair sculpture, one of many giant chair sculpture found in Santo Domingo del Cerro. It will take … Read more
The restaurant located on the best spot of Santo Domingo del Cerro goes by the name of Tenedor del Cerro. The views from this restaurant are simply breath-taking, especially during the dry season when you can see all three volcanoes hugging the Panchoy valley. Next to the restaurant there are a couple of terraces with … Read more
The Santo Domingo del Cerro compound consists as of now of a wedding chapel, galleries, conference center, restaurant, coffee and drinks bar and lots, lots of art strategically placed throughout the entire premises. Since tecolotes, owls, can be found everywhere in and around Antigua Guatemala it comes as no surprise that the tecolote sculptures are … Read more
What’s the relationship between Santo Hermano Pedro de Betancourt and Pope John Paul II you might be asking? Simple. Santo Hermano Pedro de Betancourt was beatified on June 22, 1980, and canonized on July 30, 2002 by Pope John Paul II. At the homily read by John Paul II in Guatemala City, on July 30, … Read more
