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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 …

Lent 2022 Decorations

Lent 2022 Decorations

Wednesday March 2nd is the beginning of Lent 2022 or Cuaresma as we call it in the Spanish-speaking world. Purple banners and …

Antique Doors of Antigua Guatemala

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 …

Antique Door of Antigua Guatemala

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 …

Lenten Vistas — Purple Banners

Another typical vista during Lent is the purple banners and bands that adorn many houses and business doorways and windows. Palacio de …

Korean Decor in Antigua Guatemala

I never get tired of recommending people to enter every shop, restaurant, hotel, building with public access in Antigua Guatemala to find …

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 …

Man-made Tree-looking Structure

Today’s entry is a follow up to Camouflaging Cellular Towers where I mentioned how fortunate we are in La Antigua Guatemala where …

Camouflaging Cellular Towers

Sometimes we don’t realized how lucky we are for living La Antigua Guatemala until we take a little trip beyond the municipal …

Rustic Door Handle

Simple and functional works for me. Today’s image you can find almost everywhere in La Antigua Guatemala. The elements: metal, wood, rust, …

Framing the Volcanoes

Believe it or not, I like framing. It is one of things I like to do most while taking photographs around La …

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 …

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 …

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 Lent

Many purple and violet banners are still hanging from doorways and windows around town. It feels like many don’t want to let …

The Library Tour: the reception desk

We will begin a mini tour of the library at the Compañí­a de Jesús building under the care of Cooperación Española NGO or Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional as it is called in Spanish.

But first the disclosure: I love libraries; even chicken bus libraries! 😉

Maize Cane Fence

Not all the walls in La Antigua Guatemala are made from stones, bricks or pumice blocks, some are actually made from organic …

Angelina’s Doorway

I am sure this doorway will fit perfectly in MarieMC‘s Doorways Around the World. Well, I may be wrong because since she …

X-ray of a Guatemalan House

This is the shot of a Guatemalan house at the very early stages of construction. I know this is not what you …

Gothic doorway

September started with Daily Photo Theme of Doorways. I am closing the door to September 2006 with another doorway. This is the …

Iglesia de la Merced Dome

On September 1st I brought to you the main entrance to Iglesia de la Merced (Church of Mercy). Here you have another …

Guatemalan dolls

Color is everywhere in La Antigua Guatemala. Color is on the walls, on the flora and the fauna, on the sky, on …

Stairway to heaven

As soon as you enter the doorway to Hotel Centro Colonial Antigua you are presented with this winding stairway that takes you …

Who waters all those plants?

It is very common to see plants above the walls and doors in Antigua. The Land of the Eternal Spring is Guatemala’s …

The Arab vein runs deep

You may ask yourself, what are those Arab style doors doing in a Spanish colonial town in Central America? Well, if you blow the dust away from History 101 books or read the Wikipedia entry on Spain, you may recall that all the Iberian peninsula, was under Muslin (Moors) control since 718 CE.

Maid and door in Antigua

We can derive three facts about Antigua from this photo. 1: Maids wear an apron all day long. 2: Many doorways in …

Contemplating the heavy rain

On July 2nd, I told you that because all the positive feedback and comments I had received so far, I had decided …

Knocking on heaven’s door

Door knocker, originally uploaded by rudygiron. I am prettry sure this is not what Bob Dylan had in mind when he wrote …