Casa Antigüeña: Circular Staircase

A huge part of the beauty of the Casa Antigüeña is found in its details. Simple details like a rustic round staircase with natural spot lights to illuminate during the day, the wonderful filtered sun light is more than enough. Interesting enough, for the most part the style of the architecture of the Casa Antigüeña … Read more

Casa Antigüeña: The Stairway

In the Casa Antigüeña you often find stairways or staircases. Quite often you find forged metal handrails beautifully worked by the antigüeño blacksmiths. Wait a minute Rudy, you’ve had said before that the building codes in La Antigua Guatemala prohibit new two-storey constructions. Oops, that’s right I said that. But, I did not mention at … Read more

Detail of a Stairway

One thing is very obvious in the photos of Guatemala: Green is everywhere (Lisi would be happy here since she loves green). On my post of Wood used as fuel in Antigua, I told you the etymology of the word Guatemala; in short it means Land of forest. For the whole story go, click the … Read more

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 to heaven, or at least to second floor 😉 . Back when I did the doorways series, Marie Mcc asked where do the open doors take you to? Well, the open doors take … Read more