
Antigua Guatemala Color Palette
The official color palette endorsed and enforced by the Consejo Nacional para la Protección de La Antigua Guatemala, CNPAG, the national protection …
The official color palette endorsed and enforced by the Consejo Nacional para la Protección de La Antigua Guatemala, CNPAG, the national protection …
You pick the color palette that best suits your needs and hue preferences. The choices are the textured wall colours, the Mayan …
In case you were wondering why the color of the houses repeat so often in La Antigua Guatemala, well, here’s the answer. …
It’s been a while since I updated the color palette category and since there are so many house now with new paint …
I normally don’t like red, however, I make an exception for antigüeño red. In fact, I make an exception for any color …
When was the last time you visited the Color palette category? Well, I know I fed it exactly one month ago. Talking …
Here’s another addition to the color palette category. Also, this is second version of the Show Me The Moon from Antigua Guatemala. …
It’s been a while since I last updated the color palette category. What do you think of the new colors?
Here’s one more entry to feed the Color palette category. You can see red, green, blue, and black… ah, let’s see what …
Antigua’s red, originally uploaded by rudygiron. The restaurant La Fonda de la Calle Real is another of Antigua’s landmarks. You can find …
Antigua’s green corner, originally uploaded by rudygiron. This corner has appeared in two previous photos: the street lamp on Antigua’s rush hour …
Wood Window works, originally uploaded by rudygiron. The wall’s zapote color takes its name from the fruit Mammea americana, known here as …
Yesterday I started the photo series about Antigua’s color palette. In this photo you get two of my objectives: 1. the color …
The Antigua’s color palette only accepts about 12 colors. Here you see the antigüeño yellow. This week’s photos will be about the …
I would venture to say that these two colors are the most often used to paint the façades of houses and buildings through out this enchanting town… TAP to see the full photo and the official Cartilla del Color of La Antigua Guatemala.
Today I share with you the beautiful and colorful smile of world-famous and friend of mine, Ruth and her family. Also, what …
Even though the slogan for La Antigua Guatemala is the city of the perpetual roses or as we say in Spanish, La …
If you have been following the daily posts of AntiguaDailyPhoto for nearly 12 years you would come to the conclusion that yellow …
Rojo Santo Domingo is another popular color from the Antigua Guatemala palette. Even more so than Rojo Concepción. Another rojo shade you see …
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Celeste or sky blue. Celeste comes from cielo, sky. Celaje is another word that …
Here’s a simple façade that shows some of the colours of La Antigua Guatemala. This façade was captured in the village of …
Did you guys know that there is an official color palette for Antigua Guatemala? The official color palette has 12 colors, I …
Here’a another entry for the Color Palette category. Make sure you wear sunglasses if you decide to follow the white …
In Spanish we use the word café to mean coffee and brown. Coffee berries, however, begin their color palette lifecycle as green …
Guatemala is such a colorful country; everything from flora to textiles, from architecture to food is saturated with the richest rainbow. If …
These are some of the most often used ingredients in the Guatemalan kitchen. This photo was taken on Calle del Arco in front of La Fonda de la Calle Real at a booth that the restaurant put out to showcase their flavors and the ingredients they use in their kitchen. You can take this photo to your local Latin market and start cooking some of the recipes found in this site under the Food and Drinks category. Bon Appetite!
Just like the Christmas Season comes with its own set of smells, flavors and color palette, so does the Holy Week celebrations. I can bring to you still photos, slide shows, video clips and sounds. But I can not bring you the smells. Like I said back in the Virgin of Guadalupe Day, … the incredible power of the sense of smell can detonate nostalgic memories… if only the smells could be seized like Patrick Süskind suggested in his masterpiece Das Parfum (Perfume). How could one go about imprisoning the mixture of the smells of copal incense, corozo palms, fireworks, pine needles, moisten saw dust, fresh tropical fruits, palm flower arrangements and sweat into a digital format readily available to download onto your own computer?
I am glad El Calvario Church provides a nice transition from the white cemetery series back to the rich antigüeño color palette while maintaining the death theme going on. El Calvario or Calvary (Golgotha) is the name of the mount on the outskirts of Jerusalem where it’s believe Jesus Christ was crucified. This church with its three arches provides a symbolic representation of the crucifixion; with each arch representing each cross.
This niche and the surrounding walls was basically the only color I found at the San Lázaro Cemetery. This piece was between two sets of above-ground crypts; the set on the right was empty and the set on the left was not vacant.
Perhaps it is not too late to introduce some of the wonderful Antigüeño color palette into the La Antigua Guatemala’s main public cemetery.
When I decided to enter the cemetery of San Lázaro I was expecting a very chaotic cemetery full of the antigüeño color palette with many crypts and above grounds burial chambers and perhaps some mausoleums. Surprise, surprise! The only color was provided by the many flower arrangements, there were mostly mausoleums, some nichos (above grounds crypts) and just a few crypts.
Today I share with you a picture of the façade and entrance of Casa Convento Conception and three pieces of trivia about …
Antigua Guatemala is full with lush gardens. In fact, along with colonial color palette and the fountains found everywhere, I believe the …
Here’s a row of houses on 6a avenida norte which provide a good sampling of the color palette of the official colours …
Oh what a wonderful combination of just the right ingredients is this charming and photogenic city we call now La Antigua Guatemala. …
Often times it feels that the walls of Antigua Guatemala are always being painted. I know some houses that are painted once …
Even though I have shown every color possible that you can find in Antigua Guatemalan and surrounding communities under the archives of …
Imagine that now you can follow the location updates of the cotton candy vendors on Periscope and Twitter. No more should you …
Here’s a quick note just let you guys know I have started making photos of the official color palette of La Antigua …
The painter vs the photographer in a duel on Calle del Arco, Antigua Guatemala. Each one with the visual tool of choice. These are quotidian vistas one can find in Antigua Guatemala on a typical weekend…
Well, believe it or not, the information about the ingredients of the magical light is available in the long and deep archives …
In my humble opinion, I believe that La Antigua Guatemala is among the best places in the world to live, don’t you …
Guatemala is a colorful country. What, you don’t believe me? Well, Why not check out the Color palette category to see for …
Okay, this is the last photo of the Holy Week preparations series. This emblematic yellow house known as Hotel Aurora has now …
The sonajas or maracas take on a different name in Guatemala, they are called chinchines; an onomatopoeia (onomatopeya in Spanish). Generally, Guatemalan …
In my opinion, it was a nice gesture to let handicrafts into the hallways of the Museo del Libro Antiguo (Old Book …
From the Guateflora series we take a different road to show you the lush roads around La Antigua Guatemala. By the way, the roads that communicate La Antigua Guatemala with the rest of the ‘real’ Guatemala are some of the best in the country, if not the best; they are kept in better conditions than the rest of the roads around Guatemala.
Not everything is rotten in the paradisiac lands of Guatemala. Sometimes you can take a pause from your hectic life or trip to enjoy the afternoon sunshine while having some of the best “home-made” cookies and coffee in Guatemala as you read a book or the Revue Magazine in our little green corner; our tiny and cozy corner of the world.
Guatemala is a football-playing country and thus it is obvious that balls are the favorite toy for young and mature kids . …
Almost everyone who visits La Antigua Guatemala is taken by its laid-back atmosphere. It is almost like when you first approach La …
Sometimes when you start a series you don’t know where to begin. I have colors, rich saturated colors for you. But, I …
The informal economy is the basis for making a living for most Guatemalans. That is why you have shoe-shining boys, orchids sellers, …
This is one of the kitchens at La Fonda de la Calle Real, which shows a typical kitchen in the colonial times. …
Antigua’s main entrance, originally uploaded by rudygiron. On my post Welcome to La Antigua Guatemala, I showed what you see first as …
Cafe Sky roof-top, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Sunsets in Antigua are something special and even more so when you watch them from …
The most common color combination we can make in Antigua Guatemala is blue and yellow since there’s a blue sky everywhere and …
These are some of the most often used ingredients in the Guatemalan kitchen. This photo was taken at La Fonda de la …
RWOrange put together a very comprehensive list of the restaurants and food I have covered in AntiguaDailyPhoto in Chowhound. Here’s the list …
There’s no way to go by Día de Todos Los Santos (All Saints’ Day) and Día de los Fieles Difuntos (All Souls’ …
Contrary to popular belief, Guatemalans do have a large selection of salads in their gastronomy palette, including, of course, one of the …
August 1 marks the opportunity to participate in the theme day of the City Daily Photo community around the world and this …
We, graphic designers, are a weird bunch. We like thinks like patterns, textures, colors, signs, letter shapes, shapes, you name it; if …
We all live in a yellow house Yellow house, yellow house We all live in a yellow house Yellow house, yellow house …
Anyhow, what’s got Little boxes to do with today’s entry. Well, once you listen to Little boxes or Las Casitas del Barrio Alto, you’d know it is impossible to get them out of your head. In a recent trip to México over the weekend we took the new road Carretera 14 to reach the highway that takes us to Southeast México. Carretera 14 is part of the road which will circumvent La Antigua Guatemala and some of the villages. In other words, Carretera 14 is the backbone for what will be the periférico around La Antigua Guatemala. Carretera 14 is also one the most beautiful stretches of road in Guatemala.
Cascarones are empty eggshells that are filled with pica-pica paper confetti and then covered up with another piece of papel china (tissue paper) and finally painted in colorful ways; like everything else in Guatemala. The final painted eggshells are reserved for the Carnaval as it is known carnival in Spanish which is the ‘Sad Tuesday’ before Ash Wednesday; why ‘Sad Tuesday’?, well carnival means “farewell to meat”, you can only be sad if you are going to keep a vegetarian lent. 😉
I am a sucker for signs and La Antigua Guatemala has an amazing palette of signs made from wood, ceramic tiles, metal, paint, glass, etc. Perhaps, I am sensitive to signs because of my graphic design background or maybe because I am sign junkie. I like the colors, the materials and sometimes simply the typography used. The sign above is made from metal, welded together and installed at entrance of the parking lot of Porta Hotel Antigua with a gorgeous hand-made typeface. Sorry, I said I am sign addict and since I try to show you what one is expected to find while strolling around Antigua Guatemala.
We continue the color tour around Antigua with something simple and utilitarian like kitchen gloves. I am sure Meg would love a …
If I walk around Antigua Guatemala and photograph all the street corners, I could do a series for a long while just …
What makes the life-style of Antigua Guatemala so appealing? Well, for starters we point out the great weather. Fountains, gardens with many …
Here is a little confession: I do like many of the business signs in Antigua. As much as I dislike billboard and …