For today, I bring you a close-up view of the intricate stucco details plastered on the pillars of Ruinas El Carmen, one of the best examples of the colonial baroque architecture of the Americas. El Carmen Artisan market is located right next to these ruins and on the weekends spawns onto the streets. Often, I … Read more
Take a look at the ruins of the cathedral complex of the Antigua Catedral de Santiago. This is a view from the back to the front of the cathedral. I believe the wall with the windows didn’t exist in colonial times when the church was used as cathedral. Nowadays only a fraction of the building … Read more
Nothing brings you closer to time traveling than a visit to the many convent and monastery ruins of peppered all over Antigua Guatemala. Of course, one of the most popular ruins are Las Capuchinas in the northeast quadrant with magnificent oratorio or its haunting circular ruins or its massive pillars; or all of the above. … Read more
I never get tired of sharing the many fantastic backdrops we have in Antigua Guatemala. I was fortunate to able to make a few portraits of world-famous Vanessa Pilon from Montreal, a Canadian television presenter and fashion icon, during a recent filming of an upcoming show in Antigua Guatemala. Stay tuned for news regarding this … Read more
I never get tired of sharing with you different vistas of the ruins in and around Antigua Guatemala. The other day while leading a night photography walk that focused on the architectonic façades, we captured this night vista of Ruinas de San José El Viejo. How about having a beautiful print of this ruins façade … Read more
We continue our night photography tour of Antigua Guatemala with a visit to the ruins of San Agustín in the southwest part of town, only two blocks away from the Parque Central. Do you know how many churches there were in Antigua Guatemala in colonial times? Photographs like this one is what we make during … Read more
Let’s play a discovery game this week. Each day I will share an architectonic detail from Antigua Guatemala and you tell me where it was taken from. You provide an answer or even a guess and 24 hours later I will share the exact location. Let the games begin!
“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except … Read more
My favorite ruins to visit and photograph in Antigua Guatemala are Capuchinas, Santa Clara, San Francisco El Grande Ruins, Iglesia La Merced Ruins and the ruins of the former Cathedral, how about you?
If you would like to learn more about the ruins of Our Lady of the Remedies, follow the white rabbit! In fact, from this point forward always follow the white rabbit if you want to like to learn more about the photographs posted on AntiguaDailyPhoto.com.
The ruins of Our Lady of Sorrow of the Hill are located on the north east part of Antigua Guatemala. Have you visited this site? As I mentioned last year, this is the end of the daily updates of AntiguaDailyPhoto.com; it’s been 4,748 days since our first post on May 1st, 2006. With nearly 5,000 … Read more
I have shared with you three different images of the Ruins of Santa Isabel since 2007. That’s over 12 years of coverage where you can see that even the ruins do change with time, or at least the atrium or squares in front of them. For instance, back in 2007, the little square in front … Read more
I am almost certain that most visitors to Antigua Guatemala do not walk through this part of town since it is quite hidden and out of the way, at the east end part of Alameda Santa Rosa. Or perhaps I am wrong, when was the last time you visited the ruins of Santa Rosa?
The only surviving arch at Iglesia de La Recolección was a symbol of Antigua Guatemala ruins for many years. The 1917 and 1976 earthquakes destroyed what was left of the iconic arch. The 1976 Guatemala earthquake struck on February 4 at 03:01:43 local time with a moment magnitude of 7.5. The shock was centered on … Read more
