Semana Santa Comfort Food: Garnachas
Semana Santa in Antigua Guatemala offers so many comfort foods, such as garnachas, a street food originally from Xelajú [Quetzaltenango]. Today’s portrait …
Holy Week Vistas: Shrines and Photographers
We continue our Holy Week Vistas series with the shrine at la velación, vigil, inside La Merced church. Lots of photographers around …
Panes con pollo at vigils in Antigua Guatemala
As I have mentioned before, panes con pollo or chicken sandwiches are the staple food of velaciones, vigils, along with batido, a …
Velación [Vigil] de San Felipe de Jesús
As explained last year, velaciones, vigils, are a very important tradition during Lent and Holy Week in Antigua Guatemala. Velaciones are altars …
Velaciones during Lent and the Holy Week in Antigua Guatemala
As explained before during the Lent Food series, Lent has some food that is associated with it and sold at the food …