Guatemalan Textiles Market at La Fuente
Here is a better shot showing how the Guatemalan textiles literally carpet the garden around the fountain (fuente in Spanish) at La …
Guatemalan Textiles at La Fuente
On the weekends the center garden around the fountain in La Fuente strip mall and restaurant is carpeted by Guatemalan textiles on …
Tuk Tuk Meeting
Is it motorcycle or automobile? The meeting of the tuk tuk drivers and the police was to define the tuk tuk as …
Theme Day: Men at Work
Architecture arose from man’s necessity to shelter from the environment. First, he used the caves where he left registered scenes from his daily life, to then build, with the materials found in nature, his home. As humankind organized socially and the jobs became specialties, the first masons appeared and transformed the natural materials such stone and wood, and invented others like adobes and bricks from clay. (fragment from La mano de obra en la arquitectura from JM Magaña in Recrearte Magazine, page 8, available in Spanish as a PDF download)
Societa Dante Alighieri in Antigua
Dante Alighieri also crossed the Atlantic Ocean in search for wider public for his Divine Comedy. It seems like the old folks …
Don Quijote in Antigua Guatemala
In the first decade of 1600s, one ingenious Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra set out to write a humorous tale about a tall, …
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 …
Take My Photograph
Even though most, if not all, of the quick photo labs are digital now in La Antigua Guatemala, the old and traditional …
Angels are everywhere in the firmament
Back on February 8th, 2007 on the entry New Aesthetic Values for an Old Town, I mentioned how many things are still …
Inside Doña Luisa Xicotencatl
The restaurant and bakery housed under the name of Doña Luisa Xicotencatl, on 4a calle oriente #12 in La Antigua Guatemala, has …
Jacarandas at Antigua’s Central Park
A little over a week ago, Mary Johnston asked if I could publish a photo of Jacarandas. Well, I found some trees …
Lent Celebrations Began Today
In the Catholic realm the Holy Week Celebrations begin today with the Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Cuaresma, the Spanish …
Charcoal-grilled meats at Tanque de la Unión
One of the most popular meals around Antigua is charcoal-grilled meats like beef, chicken, pork in adobo curry, sausages —red and white …
Guatemalan Cuisine Sampler
Nowhere is Guatemala’s syncretism more evident than in its food. Here you have a sampler of what is considered authentic traditional Guatemalan …
Spinning tops
Trompo is the Spanish word for spinning top. Here you can see the Guatemalan wooden handicraft version and one of them at …