Antigua Photo Walks: Inside A Colonial House from Antigua Guatemala
One thing is for sure about the Antigua Photo Walks that I lead, we don’t know where we will end up. For …
One thing is for sure about the Antigua Photo Walks that I lead, we don’t know where we will end up. For …
La Antigua Guatemala’s sidewalks were not meant for walking. Sidewalks in La Antigua Guatemala are narrow and uneven, with so many 2 …
One of the aspects I enjoy the most about exploring houses and buildings in and around Antigua Guatemala is the colonial art …
The Museo de Arte Colonial building is undergoing some repairs and restoration of the façade. Originally this building was the home of …
How do you turn a living city into a shopping mall? Well, unregulated businesses will pay top money for real estate and …
I have mentioned it a few times, but let me repeat it again. There’s are aesthetic principles which are used and apply …
One or more búcaro fountains are found along a patio or corridor away from the main fountain normally found in the center …
Lucky me that I learned to have new aesthetic values for things antique and old. Lucky me that I find beautiful and …
Very little remains from the Hospital Real de Santiago, also known as Hospital San Juan de Dios because it was under the …
Entrance to the Popenoe House, originally uploaded by rudygiron. This is the entrance to the Popenoe House, a colonial mansion restored by …
The camera is a master key! Below I will explain this statement… read on. Sunday night Fuego volcano offered an uninterrupted show …
Last Friday night at 7 p.m. AntiguaDailyPhoto guest contributor and professional photographer Arturo Godoy, Kara Andrade from HablaGuate and I attended the …
Rust is yet another desirable aspect of antique decoration elements for colonial houses. Sometimes the artisans and blacksmith artists speed up the …
The already narrow sidewalks of La Antigua Guatemala get even narrower with benches that literally grow out of the walls. Even though …
La Antigua Guatemala has many window corners like this one, a window that opens to the view of both streets. Also, another …
In colonial times, the cupolas marked where the hearts of the houses were located: the kitchens. Nowadays though, cupolas are used to …
After our Holy Week coverage, we are back to our normal Antigua Guatemala photography feed. I hope you enjoy this touch of …
This gorgeous arch is found in the the Museo de Arte Colonial, which was originally the building for Universidad de San Carlos de …
Needless to say 2020 is an atypical year, thus no burning of the devil celebration will be held in Antigua Guatemala as …
It was on July 27, 2006 when I shared my version of the reflected arches on Tanque de la Unión, which you …
The brotherhood of the parish of San Pedro Las Huertas put together the first historic exhibition of religious artifacts found in the …
All year long he hides under the bed or in the junk piled up in the corner, casting misfortune or worse on …
There are renovation works going on with the façade of the original building of Universidad de San Carlos de Borromeo, USAC, which …
Guatemalan poet Rafael Landívar, a Jesuit, was suffering in exile in Italy when he wrote Rusticatio mexicana, a Latin poem that owes …
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Portón for large doorway. Not only in churches and convents you find large tall …
This is what the Winter season looks like in Antigua Guatemala. Temperate weather, somewhere between 60ºF and 75ºF, clear blue skies, lots …
This past Thursday Casa Popenoe, immortalised by Louis Adamic in his book “The House in Antigua”, treated several dozen guests to two …
In case you were wondering why the color of the houses repeat so often in La Antigua Guatemala, well, here’s the answer. …
People gather around Barrio La Conception, Antigua Guatemala, on December 7 at 6pm for La Quema del Diablo, the burning the devil …
The other day while I was hunting a harpy at the swanky Casa Herrera, I had the opportunity to take a few …
Seven hundred species of orchids out of 1,000 are actually native to Guatemala. I found these fragments in an article about orchids …
First of all, I should mention that this picture was very difficult to capture since cameras can only expose the sky or …
Now, be honest, don’t you wish this was the entrance to your home? I know I do. I normally like very minimalist …
This is quite possibly the best description I have ever read about La Antigua Guatemala and it comes from the pen of …
La quema del diablo (Burning of the Devil) used to be this tradition, little known outside of Guatemala. I say “used to …
All year long he hides under the bed or in the junk piled up in the corner, casting misfortune or worse on …
I spent four months in La Antigua before I finally ventured to Mesón Panza Verde, one of the most renowned restaurants in …
First, Blame the trabalenguas, tongue twister, title on emromesco, who said that water will be the oil of the 21st century. Second, …
These recently renovated colonial-styled public water faucets can be found in and around many of the villages of La Antigua Guatemala. Like …
La Antigua Guatemala, LAG, draws a large part of its identity from its grid rows of picture-perfect edifices that line the calles …
As more houses of La Antigua Guatemala are turned into business, the old architectonic spaces are converted for new uses. Here for …
Now, I don’t know if the fireplace was an element of the original house from La Antigua Guatemala, but in recent years …
Other colonial measurements still in use in present-day Guatemala are: Una mano (one hand or five of anything), un manojo (a bunch), una libra (a pound; this one may hurt many of you, but for sure, the civilized world now uses the kilo), una picopada (a truckload), una fila de frances (a row of french rolls), una arroba (@ or 25 pounds) un quintal (100 pounds), una cuerda (a cord equals 1/6 of city block), una medida (a measurement of whatever fits inside a small can or basket), una penca de banano (that’s a banana cluster), et-cetera or basically that’s what I can remember right now. I am sure the Guatemalans visitors will share other colonial measurements being used in Guatemala. There was a recent article about colonial measurement in Prensa Libre’s Revista Domingo under the title of Costumbres que pesan {ñ}.
Once again, La Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo is participating in the theme day of the Daily Photo community. This time the theme is about the color red. Here you can see the Compañía de Jusús building under care of the Cooperación Española which is huge red building; one full block to be specific. This building has had many uses through history, like the home of Bernal Díaz del Castillo, home to the Jesuits of Central America in colonial times, thus its name, and more recently it houses a public library, culture center under the administration of Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional. You can see the big entrance of the building, the interior gardens and arches and one the side wall of the ruins. I decided to photograph this building because it’s the biggest red thing in La Antigua Guatemala, but I was lucky to have a red motorcycle and a red jeep enter the viewfinder at the moment I snapped the shot; how lucky, indeed.
Boy oh boy, bagels, English muffins, exotic pastries, all the cookies in the rainbow, the best coffee and Wi-Fi internet access can almost make you forget you are in a Spanish colonial town embedded between coffee plantations, flower farms and volcanoes in the central mountain range of this tiny banana baby-exporting republic known as Guatemala.
Do I love yellow or what? To appreciate an old colonial town like La Antigua Guatemala you need a new set of …
All year long he hides under the bed or in the junk piled up in the corner, casting misfortune or worse on …
Back on July 9th I told you that Guatemala sells light and color when I showed you an open door that leads …
If you have paid any attention to doors that have appeared on this site, you might have asked yourself, are Guatemalans giants? …