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Architectonic Details of Antigua Guatemala — Saint in a Niche

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Architectonic Details of Antigua Guatemala — Saint in a Niche by RUDY GIRON

Let’s continue with the architecture discovery game from this week. With each new post I will share an architectonic detail from Antigua Guatemala and you tell me where you think one can find such detail. If you don’t provide an answer or even a guess, within a week, then I will share the exact location. … Read more

Exotic Flowers at a Niche in Antigua Guatemala

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We continue this week mini series of beautiful spots in Antigua Guatemala with niche which always has exotic flowers on display. Interesting enough, this is just corridor between a patio and the street, so not many people stops to smell the coffee, so to speak. Nevertheless, I am sure many of you know exactly where … Read more

San Francisco El Grande Niche

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This niche and statue of San Francisco (Saint Francis) can be found at the entrance of the façade looking north of Iglesia de San Francisco El Grande, that’s the one on 7a calle poniente and 1a avenida, shown a few days ago on Details of San Francisco El Grande Church. Niches are among my favorite … Read more

Nacimiento Shrine Niche at Capilla de Belén

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One important aspect of this particular Nacimiento is the fact that Santo Hermano Pedro de Betancourt managed to get himself in the picture of the Nativity shrine. For those who are not well verse in Catholic imagery, myself included, normally the Nativity scene shows Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus along with a few animals. No, Santo Hermano Pedro could not be present there since he was born about 1600 years later, give or take a few moons. Rather, the inclusion of his image, on the right, is to celebrate and to remember that is was Santo Hermano Pedro de Betancourt who introduced the Nacimiento and Posadas to the American Continent, to La Antigua Guatemala if you want to be precise, and from this old town, this celebration was taken to the rest of the continent.

Saint in Niche in San Lazaro Church

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One aspect I forgot to mention was that there is full-size church inside the San Lazaro Cemetery in La Antigua Guatemala which I believe goes by the same name. There are some niches in the church façade, just like in many churches around Antigua Guatemala.

Saint in Niche with Yellow Walls

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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.

Niche Market in La Antigua Guatemala

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No, I don’t think you were thinking about this niche market. Although these kind of niches are the origin for the concept of niche market. Well, the play on words may not work completely in English as it does in Spanish. Nicho is the Spanish term for niche and it applies to the market place, to an architectural recess, a niche can be applied to a hollow, crack, crevice, or foothold, and from there to hollow structured pictured above to receive the dead.

Dress Your Walls with a Metallic Print of the Colorful Bus Terminal of Antigua Guatemala

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Get a Metallic Print of the Colorful Bus Terminal of Antigua Guatemala

Get a gorgeous 11″x14″ metallic print while supporting my efforts to keep sharing daily life vistas from Antigua Guatemala and its surroundings with you. If you live in the *US or Canada the flat fee of $49.87 includes the metallic print, the shipping and handling as well as the taxes. If you prefer to get … Read more