Here is your Spanish term of the day: Fiestas patronales or patronage festivals. Once again the Corpus feast of the village of San Pedro Las Huertas, La Antigua Guatemala is upon us. To look their best, the temple of San Pedro Las Huertas received a new paint job and and decorations were raised around the … Read more
You know it is the rainy season in Guatemala when you see people, handy men really, on the roof tops fixing the leaks. Do houses and buildings get annual repairs and new paint jobs where you live? If you would like to take a photographic tour through the rainy season vistas, just follow the white … Read more
It’s been a while since I updated the color palette category and since there are so many house now with new paint jobs, this is a good time as any to add more colours. This blue house is from San Miguel Escobar. Enjoy!
During the dry season Antigua Guatemala goes through a lot repairs and paint jobs. In my opinion, the paint jobs are to look its best for Lent and the Holy Week because I can not honestly believe you need to paint every year. What do you think?
Ever wonder how they go about cleaning the façades of the churches around Antigua Guatemala. Here’s one such image showing how they clean and dust off the main arches of Parroquía de San José, commonly known as cathedral of Antigua Guatemala or simply la catedral. By the way, most cleaning and new paint jobs are … Read more
I am truly convinced that Guatemalans can not do anything in a mild, neutral, gray manner. Guatemala is a country of extremes and there’s no middle ground here. So it comes as no surprise that everything has to have rich, saturated colors with wild patterns that under normal circumstances could not go well together, but … Read more
The traditional ceramic owls in La Antigua Guatemala are yellow, orange and brown as I have show you before, but more recently on Brilliant and Colorful Guatemala so these unusually looking tecolotes caught my attention. These ceramic owls get their distinctive paint job at one of the village around Lake Atitlán; San Antonio Palopó if … Read more
People repairing streets, façades and roofs are also very common during Cuaresma [Lent]. Everyone wants La Antigua Guatemala to look its best for Semana Santa [Holy Week]. Do houses and buildings get annual repairs and new paint jobs where you live?
There is new seismic activity in La Antigua Guatemala’s grapevine. For a while now, I’ve been hearing rumors about new closing times imposed by the Municipalidad, Antigua Guatemala’s City Hall for certain kind of businesses. Like everything in life, there are at least two sides to the story, but before I present you with details … Read more
Well, almost a year ago, I presented you with the new paint job of the Iglesia de San Pedro Apostol San Juan Bautista, in San Pedro Las Huertas, one of the villages of La Antigua Guatemala and I made a reference about how it looked like a cake. Well, this time I bring you a … Read more
Since I showed you, just the other day, how the façade of house from La Antigua Guatemala was being repaired and painted in preparation for the Semana Santa (Holy Week) celebrations, I figured you ought to see how the house was transformed. Well, once again, I was lucky because not only I was able to … Read more
Well, it looks like 2009 will be the year of the new paint jobs on all the major churches around Antigua Guatemala prior to the Holy Week celebrations, which, by the way will begin one week from today. In the photo above, you can see new colors for La Antigua Guatemala’s Cathedral. This is the … Read more
Detalles, detalles, detalles. What better way to show you the brand new paint job at the Iglesia de La Merced than to find a contrasting color to warm yellow of the La Merced church. To get a nice deep blue to contrast yellow and white paint and the Moon hanging right up there is just … Read more
Those darn electrical wires! There they are again… getting in the way. ¡Son tan metiches! —MO I agree, but what can I do? I could edit them out in Photoshop, but then the photos would not be true document of the place. Also, next time you come to La Antigua Guatemala and take the same … Read more
It’s amazing what a paint job can do. The façade above belongs to the Church of San Pedro, which is the church for the Las Obras del Hermano Pedro Hospital. Well, if you go back in time to November 25th, 2007 and look at the same façade in the background of Marimba Chicken Bus and … Read more